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Rina Matzliach and "Meet the Press" once again mentioned that the Israeli studio discourse has gone down the drain
When "Meet the Press" brings Itamar Ben Gvir and Ahmad Tibi to the studio, she knows exactly what she will get.
The program can serve as a parable for all those of its kind, who prefer noise and mutual hostility, do not distinguish between the main and the trivial, jump between topics, and especially are not able to present a complex position
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Nadav Menuhin
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 08:27
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She knew exactly what was going to happen.
Rina Maslih, "Meet the Press" (Photo: Screenshot, Keshet 12)
Itamar Ben Gvir, a far-right man who repeatedly failed to get elected to the Knesset, had difficulty in interviewing Rina Matzliach in "Meet the Press," and twisted so much that he tried to convince Benny Begin - the newcomer to Gideon Saar's "New Hope" - that he was supposedly supportive. The prosecution and therefore in fact a leftist ("What a question!", He said).
When the argument failed, Ben Gvir attacked the man sitting in front of him and waited patiently for his turn to be interviewed - MK Ahmad Tibi (the joint list), and said that he hated the soldiers, etc., etc. The ridiculous provocation of Ben Gvir does not deserve real attention, but What developed after that was yes: Matzliach threatened to take him out of the studio, he complained that she was violating freedom of expression and then the presenter further justified herself and explained that the reasoning was administrative ("I would say the same thing if he did").
Whoever placed Ben Gvir and Tibi in the same studio One by one he knew exactly what he was going to get.This exchange in the studio is almost the most predictable thing imaginable, a parody of a political discourse on television. That the debate will heat up, and no one really has an interest in stopping it, so that the two clauses can be omitted - both to initiate a loud situation and to reprimand and be naive when it occurs - a phenomenon that has already become a breakthrough vision in Israeli studio discourse.
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A parody of political discourse in Israel.
Itamar Ben Gvir, "Meet the Press" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
Yesterday in "Meet" there was another such situation, perhaps worse, when Maslih tried to talk about Corona's affairs with journalist Avi Mimran and a representative of the extremist Jerusalem faction named Boaz Naki, two from completely different branches of the ultra-Orthodox sector.
This conversation soon turned into a farce, a horrible discourse of the deaf, some of which was conducted with shouts, most of which were conducted with superficial clichés, and all of which were conducted without results.
The combination of the two interviewees with a successful one turned out to be hopeless, and neither of them was able to convey any point.
The trouble is that there could have been an interesting discussion: Mimran and Niki are right in their criticism of the police violence in Bnei Brak, and are also right in their criticism of the media that put all the ultra-Orthodox in one basket - but are more or less naive about everything else.
Successful for its part may until tomorrow hold the claim, true in itself, that there is more to the conduct of parts of the sector than irresponsibility - but when it comes to the discussion to come out right and not to listen and try to understand, the public value of the item dwindles even more.
Here, too, she lamented the difficulty of having a conversation.
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A little right and naive about everything else.
Avi Mimran and Boaz Naki, "Meet the Press" (Photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
In fact, this panel can serve as an example of how the mainstream media covers the ultra-Orthodox public in Corona: a lot of noise, mutual hostility, indistinguishability between the main and the trivial, jumping between topics and especially the inability to present a complex position.
The problem, of course, goes far beyond this issue, and fits in with the embarrassment of the first discussion mentioned: at some point in time, the same panel programs as "Meet the Press" and the like ceased to be the place to debate or take a deeper look at news, becoming politicians, journalists and people The public is shouting blank slogans at each other.
In other words, television has never looked more like Twitter.
Unfortunately, it is not at all clear if this is a bug or a feature.
In small: Matzliach ended its broadcast with a promo for Yuval, which is full of the semi-finals of Ninja Israel.
On the other commercial channel, Hila Korach called on Central Headquarters viewers to stay for the newscast, with the headline of the flagship article - "Immediately: In the Kitchen with Assaf Granit", the successful chef who is also the channel's talent, and most recently on Stand-Up Nation.
When shouts in studios mingle with such promotions, it's harder than ever to understand where the entertainment begins and where the news ends.
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