and here is why :
How i24News Turned pro-Netanyahu to Secure Broadcast License
Haaretz investigation finds a host of puzzling staff departures, banned guests and a flagship show taken off the air for being 'leftist' in efforts to weaken criticism of the prime minister
In a complex overlooking the Jaffa Port, a group of professionals is laboring over the way Israel will be presented to the world. They are not from the government’s public diplomacy department or from some anti-BDS group: They work at the international i24News television channel, the Israeli answer to Al Jazeera. The company broadcasts worldwide 24/7 in English, French and Arabic, and although it likes to say it is beamed into millions of household, it is suffering from a lack of viewers.
Over a year ago, against the backdrop of discouraging viewership data, i24News decided to focus on two goals: Receiving a license to broadcast in English on Israeli television and establishing a local Hebrew news channel. One tactic apparently used to achieve these objectives was to flatter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A Haaretz investigation reveals how the independence of the channel's news department was gelded, step by step – whether by being forbidden to invite certain guests to the studio, through a host of puzzling staff departures and the cancellation of a program deemed “leftist,” to muting criticism of Netanyahu and even to providing him with a prominent platform.
“It’s not even a propaganda channel for Israel,” said one former executive. “It’s a pro-Bibi channel.”
( its a long article and I doubt most of you would understand but here is some highlights )
It’s hard to know how many people in Israel watch i24News or who they are, but it seems that one of its loyal followers is Yair Netanyahu, who incessantly criticizes the channel and its staff. In April, after he raged on Twitter about an anti-Semitic editorial cartoon depicting his father as a guide dog leading around a blind Donald Trump, i24News presenter and investigative reporter Eylon Levy responded by sharing another anti-Semitic cartoon – this one posted by Yair, deriding leftist Jewish billionaire George Soros.
This is why i24News content had never aired on Israeli TV networks, and the reason Drahi said new legislation was needed. The first hurdle – permitting the channel to broadcast in English on Hot – was overcome easily thanks to privately initiated and target-specific legislation, spearheaded by former MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Union), which was passed by the Knesset despite the opposition of the Justice Ministry.
The Netanyahu family reacted by saying that it was not surprising that “instead of demanding answers and fully exploring the tough questions that arise from the investigation of the prime minister and others, questions that raise suspicions of criminal activity that have no place in a democratic country – Haaretz rushes to forcibly foist new and baseless accusations upon the Netanyahu family.
"This story is full of lies about the family, meant to perpetuate the negative image you try so hard to attach to it. Regardless of the baseless claims you make, the last time we checked it was permitted in Israel to express an opinion and to voice criticism – even on the part of Mrs. Netanyahu.”
Source : Haaretz
link :
https://archive.md/SL13s#selection-3345.0-3353.297
You believe it if you choose to David__77 but you are just spreading Right wing
propaganda and what Bibi wants the world to believe .
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