Who if not Guy Rolnik will educate us with blackboard, chalk and a map on the wall to detest commercial corporations that line our pockets?
After all, in every video of his he ever stood in the center, threw "crazy" numbers into the air, drew maps of "capital-rule" and created hair-tearing rhetoric, which has already arranged for him a cult of fans and a multitude of imitations in satire programs.
Even before we had time to feel the new goods that came from him, we will say that the landing of the Rolnicki docu project at the Public Broadcasting Corporation is also interesting to see if the preacher of the usher is really consumed by what our money is doing today.
Already when the promos started arriving, the titles and the numbers that were thrown into the air and were not particularly denied, they talked about how each episode of the series cost about 600 thousand shekels.
These numbers raised quite a few eyebrows, even after the corporation hastened to explain that the cost is due to "adjustments made in the last two years".
Between us, these are sums of money that Rolnik would break the board over in class.
And now to the commodity itself: "The Rollnick Report" is a series about the dangers and interests of the social network giants as they face the October 7 disaster.
The decision of the creators of the series to focus on the alarming connection between the massacre that happened in reality and the mental massacre that social networks have been inflicting on us ever since, is the only justification that such a series has.
And it is also what saves the series from being another document about the consequences of social networks on our lives - works that already exist like the number of bots that helped Naftali Bennett at the time.
Rolnik brings inside testimonies of Israeli executives from companies in Silicon Valley, who describe how they turned from organizations that believe they are only doing good for humanity - to a dark web of atrocities and propaganda against Israel based on fake news instead of facts.
It turns out that for years China, Russia, Iran and Hamas have been building a social media infrastructure based on a real army, which was just waiting for October 7th to start a war against Israel and the Jews of the world.
The first episode revealed what happens when the horror footage filmed by the Nohva terrorists meets the algorithm of the social network giants and their lust for polarization and revenue.
In the second episode, which will be broadcast tonight, Rolnik sends himself on an expensive tour of universities in America, to understand how much the situation endangers the Jews of the world.
The good news is that the stressful rollicking dose comes in the right proportions.
On the other hand, it is difficult to get out of his affection for creating televised action, and in this document it is expressed in the creation of unnecessary action scenes, for example when his sources sit in a car for a mysterious interview and the things he heard from officials are acted out by actors - when in practice it is a lot of information we already knew.
And back to "how much does it cost us?".
With all the necessary sensitivity, we will say that the disaster on October 7 and the "necessary adjustments" saved the "Rolnik Report" and us from a complete waste. I don't want to imagine at all what his precious investigative series would have looked like without the relevance to the situation, perhaps like another work we have already seen in the series of Netflix or articles by Matan Khodorov and others.
In the bottom line - in the profit line we recorded a loss: it is a doco that is nothing more than an explanation, at a much more exorbitant price.
Not even the banking cartel did such a trick on the public.
"Rolnik Report", here 11
The writer is sometimes a panelist on channel 14 and here 11
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