Lechlan Murdoch, Benjamin Netanyahu/GettyImages, Miriam Elster Flash 90
In recent days, in a visit that would have remained secret had it not been revealed by political reporter Tal Schneider on the Zeman Israel website, Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Lechlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch also met with the head of the state camp Benny Gantz.
Murdoch was also joined by Jay Walls, president of Fox News.
The two met with the employees of the concern in Israel - people from Fox News and also reporters from the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets they own.
Let's recall:
Murdoch Jr. received the keys to managing the giant media corporation about six months ago, when the 92-year-old founding father Rupert Murdoch announced his retirement from managing News Corp.
Lechlan Murdoch's personal fortune is estimated at $3.3 billion.
News Corp. is one of the most powerful corporations in the American media, which owns powerful media outlets that are identified with the conservative side of the political map in the USA and often support the positions of the Netanyahu government, including "Fox News", "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Post" , the stock index company "Dow Jones", and more.
Wow! The barangay learned that in the background of his meetings in Israel, Murdoch demanded from the people he met with not to report the meeting and not allow any photos to leak out. Three months ago, Murdoch visited another war zone Ukraine, where he met with President Zelensky, where a joint photo of the two was published.
The week of his visit to Israel was opened by an article-feature-interview congratulating and flattering Netanyahu in the Wall Street Journal, which ignored basic facts - such as the fact that Netanyahu is at a low point in public support
The visit of one of the most powerful people in the international media arouses quite a bit of interest, especially in light of the fact that the prime minister, whose criminal cases are currently being tried in the Jerusalem court, tried in the past to get Murdoch to open an Israeli Fox News channel with Murdoch's investment.
He sent his men to London for this purpose, but it did not help.
Since the beginning of the war, dozens of opinion pieces and commentaries have been published in the newspapers and studios owned by Murdoch supporting and facilitating Netanyahu and, along the way, opposing President Biden, this in the face of an American media that generally criticized the Prime Minister's moves and the way the war was conducted. The week of his visit to Israel was opened by a feature article - A flattering and flattering interview with Netanyahu in the Wall Street Journal, which ignored basic facts - such as the fact that Netanyahu is at the bottom of public support. In fact, it seems that a significant part of the newspaper - with an emphasis on "Deot" - is actually at his disposal.
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The opening paragraph of the article was Netanyahu's meeting with the fighters in the field, and later he was presented as "determined to eliminate Hamas" and "optimistic about peace with Saudi Arabia".
The article was not signed by the newspaper's regular reporter for Dov Liber, but by an Indian reporter named By Tunku Varadarajan, who is also a member of conservative research institutes. Netanyahu, of course, shared the article on his Twitter account.
Murdoch Studios complains about global media.
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While the side of the news coverage performs direct and sometimes quite critical work, the editorial side of the opinions and the coverage that is not from the field, tend in many cases to compliment Netanyahu
At the same time as Lechlan's visit to Israel, another article was published in the Wall Street Journal, this time by Lieber, under the critical title: "Netanyahu puts his political survival before difficult decisions on Gaza. The article was presented by right-wing circles in Israel as evidence of tension between the two. In this case too , the truth is more complex.
People who are familiar with the Wall Street Journal's coverage of Israel from the inside explain that while the news coverage performs direct and sometimes quite critical work, the editorial side of "Opinions" and the coverage that is not "from the field" tend in many cases to flatter Netanyahu and even his government partners
At the same time as his visit, Netanyahu was interviewed by the media owned by Murdoch Veshem in the studios (of Talk TV) and complained that the global media was not fair to him. Meanwhile, the company's studios echoed Netanyahu's new messages that "he has nothing to do with the concept and he was at
all
The alert at the gate, in the face of opposition from major forces in Israel." The basic question of who exactly disagreed with him - the subordinate forces? Those he appointed? - was not asked.
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