Chen Zander reveals her first pregnancy live from the program she presents with Kobi Mehat on Friday on Network 13/Network 13. Screenshot
Lately I've been thinking more and more about Kawhi Leonard while watching Channel 13. Kawhi Leonard is one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game.
Those who follow the NBA league do not need to be reminded of this fact.
On the other hand, it's not impossible that someone who doesn't follow American basketball probably won't know how to recognize Leonard even if he passes by him on the street.
We are not talking about Steph Curry or Kevin Durant, names that every grandmother knows.
And yes, it is a matter of choice.
Compared to other sports stars of his stature, Leonard chose to continue to consider himself an underdog, despite the successes on the floor.
His character looks almost ascetic from the outside.
He doesn't have active accounts on social networks, he doesn't go out for flashy launches and he hardly ever gives interviews.
Leonard is a huge player.
The third in history after Kareem Abdul Jabbar and LeBron James to win the title of Finals MVP with two different champions.
Still, he is an underdog, by choice.
In an inspiring quote from Leonard, he says that he chose to be an underdog because that's what makes him push himself to work harder.
Being an underdog forces him to try to surprise both the other team - and himself.
This is the motivation he needs to improve.
This is what made him one of the top players on both sides of the court.
So why do I think of this champion precisely when Kobi Mahat and Gil Levin appear on the screen in the program "13 at noon"?
And perhaps a better question is why do I even watch the program "13 at noon"?
"1 pm".
Kobi Mahat and Gil Levin/screenshot, Network 13
There is something about this program, which is not exactly a classic lifestyle program, and certainly not a news program, which concentrates all the problems of the floundering channel in two distilled hours of nothing.
Just a vacuum of content in the middle of the day.
A pair of presenters, four panelists, a lot of marketing and promotional content for the channel and a lot of incoherent bickering about issues that are not really in the world's limelight - all this under the guise of an open news studio, from the stupid thought that the viewers must like that they give news in the background to be sure that if the Syrians climb the fences we We will be in the safe hands of Tiltil and Dana Ron who will report all the details to us.
Yes, Tiltil and Dana Ron.
Two reality refugees.
It is important for me to point this out because that is what they are, and it is doubly important for me to point this out because Dana Ron mentioned at the beginning of the program how wrong it is to call reality refugees by the nickname "reality refugees".
What to do, it is what it is.
And that's okay.
Every work respects its owner.
I have nothing against Reality Refugee, and I certainly don't have anything personal against Dana Ron whom I've never met, but her authentic anger towards the title "Reality Refugee" as someone who starred in two different seasons of Big Brother and another season of Survivor is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen on the screen.
On the other hand, Tiltil, better known by his nickname Liron Orfli (or the opposite), is actually really fine with the nickname "reality refugee".
Just like Dana Ron, he leveraged his participation in three different reality shows (his father also participated in a season of Big Brother) to an extensive television career.
He may insist on the nickname "TV star", but he also understands that the nickname "reality refugee" is not insulting, just as it is accurate.
This is also the reason why hearing the unclear quarrel between him and the others sitting in the studio regarding the issue of leaving the country was so unnecessary.
So Tiltil is angry at people who are leaving the country right now.
Okay, let him be angry.
Why do you have to shout so much?
What was the fight about?
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Tiltil/screenshot, network 13
I stop and dwell on this program that insults the intelligence, not because it is worse than what the competitors have at that time, but because Channel 13 insists every time on falling into this stunt of comparing itself to the competitors and lowering itself to their level.
This is not the behavior of an underdog, this is professional suicide.
For the avoidance of doubt, Channel 14's "Patriots" program is an elite type compared to this thing that is broadcast at noon on Channel 13. At the very least, Yanon Magal's program is funnier, more coherent, and even if its agenda is extreme and difficult to digest at times - at least it has one, and it is possible understand what it is.
It is so infuriating precisely because Channel 13 is the clear underdog.
Here 11 has the state aura and the quality content of the drama department, channel 14 has the audacity of "the outsider fighting the media elite".
Channel 13 has nothing to sell except good content and quality journalism that doesn't necessarily appeal to the lowest common denominator like the friends who make Israel's TV in Beshet.
And yet, on Copper Street in Ramat Hay'al, they insist on doing everything to look like Channel 12's less flashy little sister, and they pay the price every day in the ratings charts.
Channel 13 is losing viewers at almost the same rate as it changes CEOs. A channel you feel like being on its side. Still an underdog. The loyal audience, if it remains one, wants to see it try to surprise the other team, and also itself. It's the underdog not because it's less Good. The best journalists in Israel work at News 13, and they know how to do the job. This is their promise to their small audience. This is a promise that they - the journalists - know and want to keep. It is their channel that tries to spoil their work, time and time again.
Tiltil and Dana/screenshot, Network 13
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was interviewed yesterday on Channel 12 and Channel 13. Oded Ben Ami allowed him to slander all the heads of the military ranks, as if there was no war in the background, in an irresponsible monologue, and if we didn't know the cynical human material that Smotrich is made of, we would add that he also lacks awareness self
Ben Ami smiled from ear to ear when he thought of the "sting" at the end of the monologue when he said that the government also failed, not just the Chief of Staff, and left Smotrich to answer the expected answer: the government was elected by the public, the Chief of Staff was not.
In contrast to Ben Ami, Matan Khodorov from Channel 13 did not smile when he heard Smotrich trying to avoid giving him a factual answer to an important question.
Khodorov knew not to let Smotrich speak, and simply bombarded him with the dissonances he creates in his role.
On the one hand he talks about the importance of recruiting ultra-Orthodox (because that's what his religious Zionist voters want) and on the other hand he increases the allowances for yeshiva that encourage evasion to an all-time high.
Smotrich tried to accuse Khodorov of lies ("Guinness record for untrue things"), but the numbers in the budget book cannot be argued with.
And in general, if there is one thing that is more important than the ratings of Channel 13, it is the number of mandates for Smotrich in the polls.
Apparently even his public no longer buys the lies of the minister who demands that everyone take responsibility, except for himself.
And in any case, if you compare the interviews - Smotrich could have been disappointed with the way he came out on channel 12, who let him convey his entire message page, while on channel 13 he made it clear to the interviewer that he managed to exhaust him.
Smotrich/Knesset Speakers, no
And that is precisely the mandate of Channel 13. The smaller and more bite-sized channel on paper, which does not give up on elected officials and insists on getting answers from them on questions that interest the public.
A minister in the government that led Israel to the biggest failure in its history should not leave a news studio with a smile, but exhausted.
that's how it is.
Journalism is not a bulletin board.
The goal of journalists is not to give an open microphone to politicians, but to put them in front of the public's test.
The fake and artificial accounting and balance that have become an integral part of the news channels' panels are part of the media's betrayal of their viewers.
The journalists of Channel 13, certainly the oldest among them, are the last of the gladiators who know that this is not what they are in the studios for.
This is why it sucks to see what is happening to Channel 13 in recent years.
A channel that deals with form at the expense of content.
A collection of talents, some more talented and some less, who simply lost touch with the mothership.
The audience of Channel 13, the one that remains loyal to the channel, watches it for the quality journalists, for the active line, for the extensive knowledge of its commentators - and as soon as stars like Eyal Berkovic are pushed in their face as commentators on the panel, they realize that they no longer have anything to look for on this channel.
There are a thousand ways to fill the midday television space, but to bring the viewers of the channel of Drucker and Baruchi and Lucy and Hila a heaping portion of nothing in a pita - this is exactly where the channel lost its uniqueness, its voice and its way.
No wonder he is also losing his audience.
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