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In just 12 minutes, we received information from Guy Zohar that we had not received in a week of editions
All that makes "From the Other Side" an excellent current affairs program is the ability of its creators - Guy Zohar, editor-in-chief Yoav Rabinovich and the rest of the team - to watch the news critically.
It sounds almost obvious but probably not.
If you need verified and reliable information, this is the program for you
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Ben Byron Braude
Monday, 15 March 2021, 08:41 Updated: 08:58
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People have not watched the news for a long time to stay up to date, it can be done at any given moment from our mobile.
Whether you are addicted to Twitter, the Knesset app or a thousand other sources, the latest information is available to you at the moment without an advertisement and without promotions for the "Big Brother" finale. Therefore, the main news edition in all channels should be treated as an entertainment program. Not because I believe in conspiracies, but because I remember that each edition is part of a broader plot, just like the intricate plot of "Wendhausen", only that instead of Marvel's heroes we get real-life characters like Benny Gantz, Sharon Elrai Price and Yehuda Meshi Zahav (completely random collection)
If you are an old-fashioned type (like me for example) and aspire to extract from your TV viewing verified and reliable information, you should try to watch "From the Other Side" with Guy Zohar from time to time. Zohar's daily hour (every evening, just before the newscast here) has been broadcast almost continuously since 2019, but watching the show that aired yesterday reminded me again how important the work done there is. Let's pause for a moment about the duration of the show - 12 minutes, almost without breaks and without Promises of exciting items to come later.In that time I got more info
And a rematch from five days of watching the giant editions of the news companies (something like an hour and a half for the show).
What can be accomplished in such a short time?
Well, you'll be surprised.
Zohar and daily corner presenter Leah Lev spoke yesterday about the bias in the numbers of serious corona patients, the coverage of demonstrations in Umm al-Fahm, the excessive use of the word terrorism and the "in-depth surveys" of the parties.
It seems that all that makes "From the Other Side" a good current affairs program is the ability of its creators (Zohar, editor-in-chief Yoav Rabinovich and the program editor) to watch the news critically.
It sounds almost obvious, especially for critical people like us, but after a year of watching Corona editions, I have become particularly indifferent.
Most of the information I hear in the edition, whether it comes from politicians, reporters or corona projector Nachman Ash, makes perfect sense to me in exactly the same information that sounds absurd to me.
Crazy increase in the condition of the seriously ill?
Wow, that makes sense;
On Sunday will the clubs open because we are all vaccinated?
Come on, that sounds logical too.
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Well, it's good that there are more attentive (or obsessive) people than me who watched the patient data presented in the editions and noticed a reprint - on Sundays and Mondays there is always an increase in the percentage of severe patients compared to the previous week, on Tuesdays to Thursdays there is a slight increase. Sharp in the number of patients.
Why?
There are several theories for this.
The most plausible assumption is that most people tend to stay home on the weekends and not go to the hospital.
I guess there was no need to invite researchers from Ben-Gurion University to reach these conclusions, just a genuine desire to bring viewers more accurate information.
And here perhaps lies the "disadvantage" of programs like "From the Other Side."
It is appallingly rational, has no dramatic plot or frightening headlines, only data presented in Zohar's semi-sarcastic tone.
The attack on MK Mansour Abbas during demonstrations in Umm al-Fahm also received an interesting interpretation here.
That is, not an interpretation, but brought as it really is, a point event as part of a series of large demonstrations of Arabs and Jews that take place every week in the city in protest of the wave of crime in Arab society.
Abbas' attack, severe as it may have been, was so widely covered in the editions that it was difficult to understand what the demonstrations were about.
You can understand the editors of the editions.
Mansour Abbas has put himself in perhaps the most interesting position of all the politicians representing Arab society today, flirting with Prime Minister Netanyahu over the Arab voice.
The problem is that this spotty incident cannot overshadow the wave of crime that led to demonstrations in the city, a crime that gets coverage only in extreme cases of child and teen murder.
It is possible that if crime in Arab society were to open editions every evening, it would be much harder for decision makers to ignore it and it would be truly addressed.
Returning to the ground of reality - "from the other side", good as it may be, will never be able to take the place of mainstream news.
The news it brings to viewers is also available on other platforms, only they undergo refinement of information and not construction of a dramatic story.
Relying on her viewing figures (at least on the numbers on YouTube, here 11 still continue to ignore the rating committee) versus the main edition data, most of us still turn on TV to get excited about stories, whether it’s election coverage or whether it’s a series on Netflix.
In any case, it is important to always remember that there is also an alternative.
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