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News CEO 13: Ben Haim's response to Yair Netanyahu - neither a journalist nor a college student
Israel Toito sent a message to company employees following the commentator's suspension for a few days, after responding without shaking to a tweet in which channels 12 and 13 were called "propaganda channels" and "abomination channels", in which he wrote: "Journalists are journalists even when writing on social media."
Ben Haim: Thanks to the supporters, back me up in the system
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Saturday, 10 April 2021, 21:36 Updated: 22:10
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Tonight (Saturday), the CEO of News 13 sent a letter to the company's employees, explaining that the decision to suspend commentator Avishai Ben-Haim for a few days was due to his response to Yair Netanyahu being "neither journalistic nor collegial," but stressed that the channel has journalistic freedom. reprimanded by the broadcasting company and has been suspended from Wednesday to Sunday, after a while Netanyahu called channels 12 and 13 with "propaganda channels" and the channel on which an abomination, "Ben Haim to emerge insults, and even praised him. following public uproar arose suspension.
" during This week following a response that in my eyes was neither a journalist nor a collegiate of Avishai Ben-Haim to a tweet that defamed journalists and the channel we work for, I decided to reprimand him and suspend him for four days.
It is legitimate to discuss the intensity of the sanction, but it is impossible to argue about journalistic freedom in News 13, "Toito wrote to company employees, against the background of the channel's accusations of" closing mouths, "for example from Minister Aryeh Deri, who also commented on the affair. , Has not watched News 13 in the last two years.
This is the only place where the limits of journalistic freedom are stretched as much as possible.
This is the only place where there is a strict adherence to a variety of voices, just like the variety of audiences that frequent the channel.
"" As part of the desire to stretch the boundaries of journalistic discourse, opinion items are often broadcast that evoke reactions of various kinds that can be categorized as support or resistance.
It never indicates the position of the system, but allows a glimpse and reflection of the system journalist's way of thinking.
In this stage given to journalists, there is a daily dialogue between the editors and the reporters and between the reporters and themselves about the content, wording and boundaries of the discourse.
There is not always consent.
Sometimes the disagreement gets publicity and produces a media event environment.
As editor-in-chief, I am proud to pay such prices for stretching the boundaries of the discourse, "he continued.
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Toito emphasized in the letter his appreciation for Ben Haim.
"Avishai Ben-Haim is also given this stage as part of his work as a News 13 journalist. As he has never been given, so he testifies. I think he represents the voice of many and of course he will express his journalistic opinion. This stage and the journalistic role have many rights but also duties." , Wrote.
However, in his remarks, he clarified that even when the company's journalists write in their private accounts on social networks, they still represent the channel.
"A News 13 journalist should remember that he is first and foremost a journalist, and above all a journalist who represents News 13. This also applies to social networks. Every statement of ours has weight due to our being journalists in a major media outlet. Remember that every wording has meaning and sometimes lack of statement has a statement. "From here, you will draw the boundaries of discourse on social networks as well. Journalists are journalists even when they write on social networks. They still work and represent the company in which they work even when the camera is off."
Ben Haim: The members of News 13 were rightly hurt
Ben Haim responded last night to a storm on his Twitter account, thanked for the support he received but stressed that he is backed up by the system, and that his friends were rightly harmed.
"Thank you from the heart of the room to the many supporters. I would like to emphasize for the sake of fairness and honesty and in the name of the truth: News 13 CEO Israel Toito, editors and members of News 13 who were offended by my disapproval of 'Abomination Channel', rightly allow me and back me for a long time. Of series, interpretations, opinions and voices are excluded, "Ben Haim wrote. In
Yair Netanyahu's original tweet from Tuesday, it is written:" How in the last 5 years has not even one Emil Zola appeared on propaganda channels 13 and 12 who issued a statement 'I blame' ?! ", And added in another tweet:" My mistake.
Only one got up and shouted in the abomination channels, and that is Avishai Ben Haim.
And I think the whole right-wing camp should thank him and appreciate his courage. "Avishai Ben-Haim then replied, among other things:" a.
I wish I deserved this thanks.
I did not do enough.
B.
You probably should not thank me, your father and the struggle for your father, is ours no less than yours. "
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