Like a parody of the news: Almog Boker talked for a minute and a half about a "shocking affair" without saying anything
What do viewers gain from being told, roughly, "know that something happened in the south and that you are going to be shocked by it"?
The ambiguity and sensationalism turn into a serious story - a joke
Nadav Menuhin
26/12/2021
Sunday, 26 December 2021, 09:53 Updated: 10:07
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Seven words that appeared on the screen of "Friday with a sturdy doe" (News 13) said it all without saying really anything. "First publication," no less, "the shocking affair that excites the South."
Almog Boker could not say much more than that to Ayala Hasson, who asked him to tell "the details that can be said, modest at this stage." Still, for a little less than a minute and a half, he bothered to tell that there was an affair, which was shocking, and happened in the southern region and agitated him, but nothing could be said about it, because a sweeping restraining order had been imposed on her.
"What can be said at this point: a very sad affair that will have to be examined in depth. Yes I can say that those who have been exposed to it are shocked at levels that are difficult to describe. We have been exposed to such cases in the past, "It's completely different. And the way she was eventually exposed can teach about the magnitude of the default he has had during the last period because it was possible and necessary to get to this affair much earlier," Boker added.
"As stated, a shocking affair that agitates the southern region. A restraining order has been imposed on the affair, a sweeping restraining order, and I assume that in the coming days we will be able to be exposed to more details and then we will understand the magnitude of this shocking affair."
So many empty, meaningless words that speak in symbols above the viewers' heads.
Even after them, we still know nothing yet.
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Shocking affair.
Morning (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
All this reporting is like a parody of news.
First of all because it is pointless, and it is impossible to understand a thing and a half from it.
What is the journalistic value of this report?
What is its public value?
What do viewers gain from being told, roughly, "know that something happened in the south and that you are going to be shocked by it"?
It seems from the things that the affair, which took place in the south, is really shocking, and it is probably important that we know about it.
But if so, is it not better to act sensitively, to give concrete and sensational information whenever possible, and to prevent the spread of rumors and speculation in the name of shock?
The job of the news is to provide clarity, to explain what happened.
The excited ambiguity turns into a serious story - a joke.
Where is the brightness?
Sturdy (Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
If we go back for a moment to the title, we notice that he understands seven words, only one is informative ("the south"), but four others reveal what really mattered to the editors of the edition, and teach about the dismal media climate of the present time. Since not much can be said, the main thing that Boker and Hasson point out is the sensational order: after all, this is the "shocking affair that excites" - a double degree of violent commotion and shaking. This is the engine of the Israeli press in 2021: let's all be shocked by something that happened. Usually before that, well, the thing from which you are expected to be shocked, but this time only the emotional order appears. You know you need to be shocked by something exciting, tell viewers, we have something that will shock you right away, no matter the details.
And there are also the two words that opened the headline - "First Post".
The urge to publish Rishonim a blatantly unreported report in the name of what an imaginary brasserie achievement attests as a thousand witnesses to the disproportion between the competition and the value of the report, and to its inherent insensitivity, as if Primacy is what matters.
And this is what is left of it all: something terrible, shocking and exciting has happened.
We can say nothing about it yet, but it will shake us all.
Prepare for it, and remember where you first heard it.
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