This is not how revenge is presented: in the weekend news, a yellow, haphazard and sloppy article was broadcast
Under the guise of "documentation," News 12 published an embarrassing story from 22 years ago about a senior media man.
It is not clear if there is a connection to an item recently published in The Marker about News 12 CEO Avi Weiss, what is clear is that the press was not there | Opinion
David Wertheim
12/06/2022
Sunday, 12 June 2022, 11:32 Updated: 12:14
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Omri Maniv, item in News 12 (screenshot)
According to the promo, the impression is that the media man used contacts to avoid an accusation against him and that it was a case of corruption between police officers and the prosecutor's office and the press.
However, the issue was not clarified in the article itself and the name of the said senior official was not published, so it is not clear what the journalistic value was embedded in the story.
An article aired on the weekend edition of News 12 on "An affair involving a 'senior media man in one of the newspapers' - raises again the concern that the public interest is not always at the center of the considerations behind the powerful news company in Israel
. , But complained to the police but later regretted it. And hears
juicy
stories from them. "The article was broadcast at the end of the edition and the 30-second report was buried at the end.
In the article itself and the name of the said senior official was not published,It is therefore not clear what journalistic value was embedded in the story.
In practice, the "documentation," which was swallowed up in an article about three police investigators who became taxi drivers "and tell the secrets," included second-hand testimony from a man who said the senior kicked him - testimony that, even if true, was told by a stakeholder (extortionist who wanted to justify his actions). And certainly not crucified or leaning on solid foundations.
This thing by the way has a name - gossip.
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You wrote gossip.
Dana Weiss (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The promo for "Documentation" distributed by Omri Yaniv
"Gun on the table"
On the other hand, News 12 has a significant record of revenge of various kinds, and that is before even mentioning for a second the code name "Jafnica"
Senior members of the Haaretz group who spoke yesterday (Saturday) with Walla Brenze hinted that in their opinion, this article is a kind of "gun on the table" that was laid, among other things, as revenge for a De Marker publication a few weeks ago about News 12 CEO Avi Weiss. Uploaded a story from 22 years ago to avenge a story against him with a marker. "An outsider even went so far as to say that" in the end, you wrote a protection article. "
The article, entitled "The Side Business of the CEO of News 12: Real Estate with a Senior ICL, and the Ambassador to the United Nations," discussed Weiss' private investment in a real estate venture run by his brother, along with I government and senior chemicals in Israel.
The article clarified that Weiss's investment is legal and legally reported, but criticizes News 12's eye-closing in Weiss's management of tycoons and polluters, as well as the capital-newspaper-government ties that this investment allegedly represents.
A senior newspaper official by the way, thanks Walla!
Brenze that even this article "was not baked" and suffered from logical failures and built-in problematicity that would have been more appropriate for a personal column and less for a reporting article.
In News 12 of course the thesis is denied.
Another possibility is that which was published in the Seventh Eye, according to which the article was preceded by a campaign of persuasion by Keshet, the parent company of News 12, which targeted the marker belonging to the Haaretz group, the senior employee at the center of the "story."
The claim is based on Keshet's motivation in promoting its FREETV venture, which is at the heart of a public struggle.
It is not clear how much this thesis stands the test of reality since despite the criticism of Keshet's monopoly in the field of news delivery, De Marker actually consistently supports the approval of the venture.
On the other hand, News 12 has a significant record of revenge of various kinds, and that is before even mentioning for a second the code name "Jafnica".
For mistakes paid.
Codename "Jafnica"
Stick to the facts
"Journalism is first and foremost, 'everything that can be proven.' And what we got yesterday is a yellow story without proof, without any journalistic commitment to proof and without any public importance."
To avoid an overly conspiratorial atmosphere, a senior news editor in the industry suggests sticking to the facts.
"There is no proof that the publication of News 12 is in response to an unflattering article or unpopular coverage. What we do know is that the article that was broadcast is very overlapping from a journalistic point of view - journalism is first and foremost, 'everything that can be proven.' Proof, without any journalistic commitment to proof and without any public importance. "
He said, "As a senior news editor I would not approve of such a thing for publication. It is at best a bad consideration. Firstly there is no established information here. Only yellow speech that has no benefit to the public. Secondly, there is no HARD EVIDENCE - no written testimony from that event, no A police investigation. Instead, there is a story 'on the road'. Did News 12 try to substantiate the story? Did it try to get the person in question? "Did they initiate the meeting with the State Attorney's Office - the media man or the State Attorney's Office? Did it take place at all? You never know. Why? * The "story" told to them.Instead of serious journalistic work, we received a juicy gossip story, reminiscent of the gossip pages dripping with sex stories and politics of the days of "This World"Of Uri Avnery - not exactly the journalistic aspect, which is worth remembering, returning or embracing in the history of this glorious newspaper. "
Reminiscent of the gossip pages of "This World".
The late Uri Avnery (Photo: Reuven Castro)
No longer in the 80s
News 12 can not hide behind comments in the style of we did not violate the privacy of that media person because "we did not publish his name or the media body in which he is employed."
We are no longer in the 80s - on social media the gun was laid.
And anyone who wants to can understand with the help of two fingers and Google who aimed the bullet that was shot yesterday in the honorable Saturday edition presented by Dana Weiss.
It is also worth asking where her journalistic ethics went before the article aired.
Even if this is not part of a planned war, at least it is a haphazard and sloppy edit.
We have become accustomed to new editions that begin with expansive interpretations of commentators, whose connection to reality is revealed after weeks, days and hours as nothing and nothing.
But do not get used to news that is not based on hard information.
Without it, the press is nothing and nothing like a dilapidated card tower with no solid foundation.
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