In the shadow of the Corona and the political skirmish, almost without feeling, the list of missing voices in the public broadcast is growing longer and they are gradually moving away from influential positions in the broadcast there. Most of them are affiliated with the National Camp, but first and foremost are excellent journalists and professional integrity. The renunciation of their services does not seem to have anything to do with their worldview, which is having difficulty with submission templates and editing in a liberal liberal tone. One time they will explain "moving them" from the microphone in changing the broadcasts against the background of the Corona crisis and another time in a work arrangement, an advanced age or a changed boss. Whatever the reasons or excuses for it, the result is definite.

Incremental damage, which diminishes the ability of public broadcasting, with emphasis on a balanced B network, to be balanced as well; The public also has a conservative or national Jewish right-wing tune that is different from the tired, familiar media tone. Is it a "purge"? This word may be too powerful, but it's a little hard to believe that in this ongoing backlog - it's all accidental.

Teitelbaum, who has very successfully submitted both news diaries and "All Talk" (along with Adi Meiri), has been relegated to the relatively remote heritage network. Amira Shapiro and Zeev Kamm, who also submitted news diaries, were removed from the submission microphone and only reporters remained. A few days ago, the Kalman and Sgt. Program here was discontinued (temporarily?) Here, 11, and the last on the list was Emily Amrusi (my colleague from this newspaper) who was excluded from the filing of news diaries, and also the fine news program she submitted with Prof. Yuval Albashan - a lively and balanced broadcaster - removed This list also includes Ya'akov Ahimair, who ceased to serve morning diaries on Network B and "See the World" here at 11, and if you wish - also the colleague who left his initiative "Dekelsgal".

Contrary to some of my good friends, I have no problem with the candid or covert opinions of Aryeh Golan, Keren Neubach and Lucy Aharish - who yesterday learned of her termination of "Cultural Agent" here 11 - and many of their colleagues in the corporation. These are excellent journalists and presenters who do their job well. Many of them are a landscape pattern of their outlook and home. I prefer those over communicators who act remotely as disconnected observers. Their voices matter. They need to be heard, but what is unthinkable is that only, or almost only, their voices will be heard; That the microphone is only reserved for them, and that the new public broadcasters are currently increasing its ranks, painted in a uniform hue, such as former Labor Party chairman Shelly Yachimovich or Haaretz member Haim Levinson.

All of this, if anyone should be reminded, does not occur on a single page: After many years of clear bias from state radio to the "left" side of the political map and lordship over the Israeli value system, a series of "right-wing" professionals have also succeeded in integrating editorial positions And serving. It was a modest correction in scope, which balanced but slightly the long-standing hegemony of the left in the media. Now the wheel is moving backwards and again there is a danger that at least half of the Israeli public will be silenced; That the intolerable gap between "media positions" and "public positions" reopens; That the language and the basic assumptions and the prioritization and the choice of the interviewees and the way the questions are presented - will all be "one language and several things". This has been the case for many years. Don't take us there again.