Even before the establishment of the state, the media in Israel were a tool of control.
The Hebrew settlement and the young state were like an organic body, the government was the brain, factories provided energy and resources, farmers provided food, ports - raw materials, roads as blood vessels and the army as an immune system.
The purpose of the body was Zionist fulfillment.
Anyone who did not align with the goal was considered a foreign body, and the state systems attacked him.
The revisionists, the Arabs or the independents - in the country at the beginning of its journey, the citizens were cells, biological machines whose purpose was to work and fulfill the political vision.
Under Ben-Gurion, as in any socialist regime, the individual was meaningless - you lived where the Ministry of Housing told you, you worked where the Histadrut and the Red Card allowed you, you ate what the kibbutzim and factories provided you under the austerity regime, you studied where the Ministry of Education sent you, and you renewed your strength at home The recovery that the secretary of the Mapai branch found.
Under Mapai's socialist regime, the media had only one role: the transmission of orders from the government to the people. The role of the media was not to connect people, or worse - to allow them to participate in a multi-directional democratic discourse, but only to serve the government. The radio (Voice of Israel and GLC) was established to transmit instructions, telephone lines were deployed so that officials could transmit instructions (the private citizen had to wait seven years for a telephone line), and interpersonal communication was a luxury.
Plays, films, newspapers, radio and television were heavily censored.
The story of the State of Israel can be told through its wars with its neighbors, as the education system does to this day, but there is also another story, the one that sees a citizen as a cell and the state as a body, and the communication system in the body is one-way, from the brain to the cells, and God forbid if the two toes talk to each other because They may still vote for Begin.
Communication in a dictatorial and socialist country is one-way communication;
Communication in a democratic and free country is multi-directional.
The key to understanding the media in Israel begins with the question: what kind of country do we want to be, unless we want to continue the legacy of Mapai. The role of the Minister of Communications is to enable citizens to communicate effectively, and not to be a government propaganda minister.
The State of Israel is the only one in the Western world that does not have a civilian radio.
There is only government radio (here) and military radio (GLAZ). The regional radio stations are too small (on purpose) to influence the conversation. An alien who lands here and turns on the radio will think we are in Putinist Russia or North Korea. The first task of the new communications minister should be to open The radio market for free competition - anyone will be able to buy a frequency in a tender and broadcast. Free radio is a terrifying thought for Mapai's heritage, but after 74 years of independence, I think our country is strong enough to free the radio.
The second task of the Minister of Communications should be to close the broadcasting corporation.
Despite the good intentions of the public broadcasting planners, the product failed to bring "independent communication", its news is dull and devoid of ratings, credibility or journalistic value, except for providing jobs to insiders and budgets to selected production companies.
The artistic content is indeed of a high production standard, but these are mostly purchased productions, which would have been successful in commercial broadcasting.
Public broadcasting alienates most of the population in Israel, has failed as a news provider, and its entertainment is Trotskyian left.
You can close and move on.
The third task is to stop interfering in commercial broadcasting, namely the "Cable and Satellite Council" and the "Second Television and Radio Authority".
In no reformed country do officials sit and decide how much news to broadcast, how many channels there will be, what is considered reality and what is drama.
If there are too many advertisements or garbage or propaganda, the people can vote by sign.
We don't need politicos.
The time has come for the Communications Ministry to stop seeing us as cells, and start seeing us as human beings.
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