As our bodies pile on top of each other like a large mass grave, the simple task of watching the news becomes a complex and scratching mental challenge. The human tragedies are presented one after another, and I no longer know how many times my heart broke in front of the screen and my eyes filled with tears. You can't watch TV these days without getting a gut boom and a twinkle in your heart, but you also can't close your eyes to reality, even when it's dark and gloomy. Only with our eyes open can we see heroism and hope.
And then there's Channel 14, where the celebration is in full swing and the smiles are numerous. Against the backdrop of the national emergency, the unnecessary channel continues to concentrate on engineering the consciousness of its viewers and raising national morale.
The same news channel, which remembered to start broadcasting only half a day after the outbreak of the war, is working frantically to provide a fuzzy alternative to events. During the first few days, they gradually reduced the scope of the interviews they broadcast with survivors and families of the missing, until the day before yesterday, Amir Ivgi got into a futile argument with the interviewee Shirel Hogeg, whose family was injured in the riots.
Hogeg blamed Prime Minister Netanyahu for the failure, and then blamed the channel itself. "If once again one of you calls someone on the right or left a 'traitor,' or fools each other, we will not forgive you," cried a celebrant in pain. Ivgy tried to defend himself, but only got more complicated.
Keep horror stories to a minimum,
As such, yesterday the channel already made sure that such a saga would not be repeated. How? They simply minimized the preoccupation with survivors, with horror stories from the surrounding communities, or with concern for the lives of the captives and missing persons. I couldn't find this kind of interview on the channel throughout the broadcast day, and I was really looking. And the truth is that yesterday I saw more interviews on CNN with civilian survivors or families of abductees than I did on Channel 14 for an entire day.
Because right now, the ultimate goal of Now 14 is to raise morale. Therefore, they rarely mention the number of Israeli fatalities, suppress the issue of abductees and missing persons, interview mainly soldiers, MDA teams, police officers and firefighters, praise the achievements of the Air Force, and maintain a joking atmosphere between futile discussions and reports of the Red Alert. Last night, at the height of the anxious moments due to rumors of terrorist infiltration and malfunctions in the Home Front Command app, Sharon Gal tried to calm a speculative discussion in the studio with the sentence: "Give him a moment to joke." What laughs, eh?
"You have nothing to worry about, it's great here, they're shelling fairly, there's really nothing missing. Send me underwear and tank tops, here everyone is like animals, fighting like lions, morale is really high," Thelma Eligon-Rose wrote 50 years ago. In one of the commemorative films about the Yom Kippur War that was recently broadcast, the poet admitted that she wrote the aforementioned anthem of encouragement from her home in Tel Aviv, without understanding what was happening on the fighting front at the time. The result: a fake song from her feverish mind. Nothing to worry about? Shelling fairly? High morale? The song performed by Uzi Fuchs serves to this day as a complete antithesis to the real reality that existed on the ground. Really high morale was not the narrative of that war, nor is it the narrative of this war.
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