In the early 2000s, the intelligent and talented presenter Carmit Guy retired from the Broadcasting Authority.
Officially, there is talk of financial distress for the Authority.
Concrete - about her space between the teeth.
A few years later, the Neubach Foundation was excluded from presenting "Mbat Second", claiming that it "does not pass a screen".
The fascinating Neubach passed the screen excellently, but did not fit the model of synthetic beauty, which unfortunately many talented actresses succumb to.
Also around the retirement of Dalia Mazor, one of the more iconic broadcasters who were here, there were talks about her apparently advanced age and her suitability for television visibility.
At the same time, dinosaurs devoid of televised grace (which is only required of women), such as Haim Yavin and Yaakov Achimair, continued to appear every evening.
During the Corona days, a report was published by Prof. Einat Lechuber from Sapir Academic College and Sophia Chaitin from the University of Haifa on women in the media at the time. Women represented only 11% of opinion commentators, compared to 24% in Western countries. The meaning of the figure is that 89% of the commentators were men Most of them barbarized themselves to know and didn't tell us anything.
Ageism (discrimination due to age) and the blatant exclusion of women are not foreign to the broadcasting channels in general, and the public channel in particular.
In the early 2000s, when some of the events I mentioned happened, I had the privilege of working with the women of the Broadcasting Authority in the empowerment courses.
Without going into too much detail, he says that the discriminatory and exclusionary male gaze is not foreign to the organization's DNA, which even after it broke up - managed to infiltrate the public broadcasting corporation, "Kan 11". A popular program that is all women, even though it won an Academy Award, and replace it with programs presented and edited by men, who did not scratch the threshold of nomination for those awards.
All of this is to say that if there is anything that really did not surprise me this week, it is the resignation of Geulah Ibn-Saar, after she was removed from presenting the news due to her husband's fault, and the removal of Rina Mosilah from presenting "Meet the Press" on Channel 12. Everything is related, of course.
According to publications, Mishleh will probably be replaced by two men - Amit Segal and Ben Caspit.
Segal's brother is running for the Knesset in the religious Zionist party.
No one thought to remove him from the editions, as a main presenter or as a commentator, as Ibn-Saar was removed.
In terms of his age, Ben Caspit is only a few years younger than Moshet, in a small way.
And both candidates are very opinionated, no less than her.
It is likely that the channel managers are sure that their decision is professional and matter-of-fact, only it is not: it is completely gender and age-related.
Geula Even was removed from the edition because she is the wife of Gideon Sa'ar.
This would probably not have happened if she had been the candidate for the Knesset and he was the broadcaster.
Majleh was expelled because the mix of age, appearance and opinions did not go well with the men's club.
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