Re: askthesource

On 7/29/2012 11:04 AM, Michael Wise wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mju7pDBi_w

askthesource

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mju7pDBi_w

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:06:11 -0400
From:	Michael Wise <mlwise@gmail.com>
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To:	'Joel H. Golovensky' <golo@netvision.net.il>, yuval gat <yuval_gat@yahoo.com>

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guysen-hebrew

guysen

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/jewish-media-mogul-to-invest-in-israeli-version-of-al-jazeera-news-channel.premium-1.443897

guysen

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/jewish-media-mogul-to-invest-in-israeli-version-of-al-jazeera-news-channel.premium-1.443897

silence

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-medias-despicable-silence-on-israel/

eckstein

http://www.ifcj.org/site/News2?abbr=sfi_&page=NewsArticle&id=35782&news_iv_ctrl=3342&s_src=SFIEN1&s_subsrc=EN21204XXEXXA

Fwd: nytimes/haaretz

http://fresnozionism.org/2012/01/israels-information-enemies/

israel's bible belt

http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/Archive/News/Stakelbeck_Terror_011012_NoBreaks_WS

israel show

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-israel-tv-20120102,0,6681322.story

channel 10

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-channel-10-faces-closure-after-state-rejects-debt-deal-1.401083

coverage

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/foreign-media-flock-to-israel-ahead-of-shalit-exchange-deal-1.390333

moadim lesimha!
mike

media obsession with Israel

USA obsession:  http://www.jidaily.com/NplmB/e

New Peer-Reviewed Academic Study Confirms Media Obsession With Israel

Omri Ceren 07.22.2011 - 11:30 AM

There’s an article coming out in the next issue of Communication Research that tries to untangle how and why foreign countries get covered by U.S. news outlets in general, and by NBC and the New York Times in particular. The peer-reviewed piece is a collaboration between researchers spread across Washington state and two Dutch universities, and – like all good academic work – has a soporific title, Foreign Nation Visibility in U.S. News Coverage: A Longitudinal Analysis (1950-2006).

The long timeline means that even regional wars get pushed down the list by Cold War and global diplomacy coverage. So the USSR, China, Britain, and France are all prominent because they’re nuclear powers on the Security Council. Germany and Japan show up a lot because we had just finished fighting them and had troops on their territory.

And then there’s one other distant country with which the U.S. press seems to be preoccupied, above and beyond any country except the USSR:

The first step in our analysis was to examine which countries were most visible during each of the four geopolitical eras analyzed. Table 1 lists the top ten most mentioned foreign nations in the NYT and on NBC during the early Cold War era (1950-1973), the late Cold War era (1974-1991), the post–Cold War era (1992-2001), and the post-9/11 era (2002-2006). Notably, nine countries were among the top ten most mentioned countries in at least four of the eight series analyzed. Specifically, Russia (USSR) and Israel received the most consistent news coverage—followed closely by Britain, China, France, Japan, Germany, Iraq, and Mexico.

The authors go on to suggest coverage of Israel is so obsessive because the Jewish State is a close U.S. ally and has nuclear weapons. That’s historically a little dicey – certainly the U.S.-Israel relationship was rocky throughout the 1950s and 1960s – and it certainly doesn’t account for why coverage of Israel is greater than of Britain. But it’s also in direct tension with the study’s actual conclusions, which is that coverage is driven by distance, U.S. troop deployment, economic power, and population. To explain the media’s obsession with Israel, it seems, requires something a little more sociological.

The findings put into perspective the lame excuse trotted out by NYT public editor Arthur Brisbane, which is that the Times gets criticism from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel advocates and so must be doing something right. Before getting to that though, here’s a sense of the Times’ coverage leading up to, and immediately following, Brisbane’s claim:

* In July, the newspaper published context-less Hamas positions about the history and purpose of Israel’s Gaza blockade, along the way ignoring the announced blockade-busting goal of the recent Gaza flotilla. The flotilla, of course, was the central Israel story of the month.

* In June ,the newspaper published an AP report about how two out of three Israeli soldiers were charged with taking inappropriate snapshots of Palestinian prisoners, a story that Times editors headlined “Israel: No Charges Over Prisoner Photos.” The degree to which Israeli courts punish Israeli crimes has recently become a focal point of anti-Israel delegitimizers, who are attacking the Jewish State’s judicial competence in the hopes of internationalizing trials.

* In May, the newspaper laughingly asserted that “Israelis see Netanyahu trip as a diplomatic failure,” which flew in the face of every Israeli poll but reflected a reality the Times really wanted to be true. Obama’s broadside of Netanyahu and the president’s agreement-abrogating 1967 borders position were, of course, the central diplomatic dramas of that month.

* Also in May, the newspaper editorialized that Hamas leader Khaled Meshal was “fully committed” to a two-state solution. That editorial was an echo of a news story, published just days before, which was from the previous week headlined “Hamas Leader Calls for Two-State Solution, but Refuses to Renounce Violence.” The second part of the headline was technically true in the sense that Meshal refused to renounce violence, but in that story the Hamas leader declared a Palestinian state would not prevent Hamas from continuing to try to destroy Israel – which is kind of the definition of a two-state solution.

And then of course there was the Times’ surreal coverage of the first Gaza flotilla, where the Newspaper of Record asserted that “angry Israeli commandos” had turned “a ship of protesters in international waters into a bloodbath.” That characterization – like the rest of the Times’ Israel journalism – crosses over into bias even if  lunatic anti-Israel partisans complain that it’s not harsh enough.

But let’s ignore all of that. Even if the Times is balanced, that doesn’t justify their obsessive focus on Israel, something that has now been verified by an in-depth examination of their coverage spanning more than half a century. The newspaper, along with huge swaths of the media, doesn’t just indulge in anti-Israel propaganda on their editorial and news pages. They do so in a determined drip drip drip way that plays into the hands of delegitimizers. Maybe anti-Israel activists will complain it’s not enough, and then it’ll be alright.

European obsession: http://www.jidaily.com/NplmB/e

Contentions

The European Media Obsession with Israel

Alana Goodman 05.26.2011 - 4:46 PM

Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have been on the rise, according to recent reports, and that trend has coincided with anti-Israel sentiment. Which is why a new study revealing the obsession that the often-hostile British media have with the Jewish state is worth noting. The latest report by media watchdog group Just Journalism compared the coverage of Israel to the coverage of the “Arab spring” countries—Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia—during 2010.

The group found that the attention given to the Arab spring countries (before the uprisings) was almost nonexistent. At BBC News alone, news coverage of Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia combined and doubled still amounted to less than was written about Israel. At the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, news coverage of the Arab countries combined and tripled still amounted to less than was written about Israel. Meanwhile, the Guardian published 16 editorials on Israel in 2010 and not a single one on the three Arab countries that were on the verge of turmoil.

“It has been true for many years that so-called Middle East reporting all too often means daily news coverage and criticism of Israel and not a great deal else,” said Just Journalism’s spokesperson Michael Weiss. “Clearly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deserving of media attention, but the disproportionate focus on it to the near exclusion of the rest of the region has left journalists on the back foot in reacting to the current political earthquake shaking the Arab world. I hope that the British”

Israel was scapegoated as the root of Middle East unrest for years, while the oppression and corruption throughout the Arab world were largely ignored. Now that the uprisings have fully debunked this myth, news outlets have a chance to refocus their coverage on the rest of the Middle East, instead of obsessing over the single democratic state.

channel vote delay

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=226653

knesset shai channel

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=226539

army radio

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=226645

nevzlin

what a tragic=comedy. see talkback eight...
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-announces-leonid-nevzlin-acquires-20-percent-of-haaretz-shares-1.367159

israel obsession over?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/08/media-obsession-with-israel

http://iwtvinfo.blogspot.com/

Int'l Channel AM

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Israeli Arabs channel

our cousins...
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global channel AM

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Coming soon: Jewish 'al-Jazeera'

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sasha mashkevich

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Alex Mashevich

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IPAD TV

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adobe TV

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glenn beck online?

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Meet the IDF Facebook-Twitter Commando,

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BBC Turkell report

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melanie phillips

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Al Dura Media Hoax

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Yisroel Hayom

Israeli Papers Battle

By JOSHUA MITNICK

TEL AVIV—At a time when American dailies are shutting down, Israel has a full-blooded newspaper war on its hands. And by at least one measure, a U.S.-bankrolled start-up is winning.

Just three years after hitting the newstands, U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson's Yisrael Hayom recently nudged ahead of former leader Yedioth Ahronoth in readership by combining a patriotic Israeli bent with cutthroat pricing.

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The newspaper Yisrael Hayom, owned by mogul Sheldon Adelson, is making inroads among Israeli readers.

"We have changed some common beliefs that were held by the media, for example, that Israel was always wrong," says Yisrael Hayom's editor in chief, Amos Regev, a photo of himself with then-U.S. President George W. Bush on the wall.

The paper's newsstand price—free—has helped as well, making Israel among the latest countries to join a decade-long rise of free dailies that are giving traditional paid newspapers a run for their money. And Yedioth Ahronoth, which costs about $1.35 weekdays at the newsstand, has cut its advertising rates in the last year, likely spurred in part by Yisrael Hayom.

Yisrael Hayom, which means "Israel Today," still faces plenty of challenges. Allegations of political bias have put the newspaper in the cross hairs of several lawmakers. Meanwhile, Yedioth Ahronoth owner Arnon Mozes has a substantial media empire behind him and won a newspaper war against another rival in the 1990s. The unprofitable Yisrael Hayom, part of Israel Today Newspaper Ltd., also still must contend with the same pressures from the Web that all newspapers face.

For the time being, however, Mr. Adelson can afford to support the newspaper. The 77-year-old, whose wife is an Israeli, controls Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas as well as resorts in Macau.

Israeli media-research company TNS-Teleseker reported that 35.2% of Israelis read Yisrael Hayom in this year's first half, up from 26.9% a year earlier. That put its reach a tad higher than Yedioth Ahronoth's 34.9%, up from 34.2%, though within the survey's margin of error of 1.5%.

Yisrael Hayom is catching up on circulation, too. Newspaper circulation isn't independently audited in Israel, but Yisrael Hayom says it prints 300,000 copies daily. The circulation of Yedioth Ahronoth, which means "Latest News," is about 300,000, according to World Press Trends, which tracks newspaper-industry data world-wide.

Yisrael Hayom has made these gains with an editorial staff about one-third the size of Yedioth Ahronoth's 324 people, according to Israeli research company Ifat Business Information. And Yisrael Hayom's roughly 48 pages each weekday is less than half the size of Yedioth Ahronoth.

Yisrael Hayom has prospered as several U.S. newspapers have filed for bankruptcy or stopped printing in recent years, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Denver's Rocky Mountain News. But Yisrael Hayom's success mirrors the growth of free daily newspapers globally. The number of free daily newspapers hit 196 this year from just a handful in 1997, according to Piet Bakker, a journalism professor at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

The growth of Yisrael Hayom, which promises on its inside cover "to remember that we are Israelis," also coincides with a rightward shift in public opinion that lifted Benjamin Netanyahu last year to a second term as prime minister. During complaints in Israel that the government was ill-prepared to handle a recent massive forest fire, Yisrael Hayom ran a page-one column by Mr. Regev, the editor in chief, under the headline, "Netanyahu Stood the Test of Fire." Mr. Adelson has called himself an "ideological" skeptic of peace talks with the Palestinians.

As readership of Yisrael Hayom has climbed, critics have accused the paper of slanting its coverage in favor of Mr. Netanyahu, a friend of Mr. Adelson. Yisrael Hayom "has an editorial line characterized by blanket, one-sided, and unmitigated support of Netanyahu, while leveling sharp criticism at his rivals," Yoel Hasson, a member of Parliament from the opposition Kadima Party, says by email. Member of Parliament Marina Solodkin took aim at Yisrael Hayom this year with a bill, ultimately defeated, to force nationally distributed free dailies to charge readers after a year. She plans to introduce a revised version in the current session.

Mr. Adelson in a prepared statement says "there is no truth whatsoever'' that Yisrael Hayom is a vehicle for the prime minister.

Yedioth Ahronoth owner Mr. Mozes is no stranger to newspaper wars, having fended off a challenge in the 1990s by then-No. 2 Ma'ariv. Mr. Mozes is the controlling shareholder of one of Israel's largest corporations, Yedioth Media Group, which has magazines; a book publisher; Israel's largest Russian-language paper; Ynet.co.il, Israel's most popular news website; and a stake in Israel's only cable-TV provider.

But Yedioth Ahronoth, which declined several requests for comment, has been challenged by Yisrael Hayom. Yedioth Ahronoth started a free daily of its own in 2008 but closed it within a year. Advertising space in Yisrael Hayom surged 65% in the first half from a year earlier, according to Ifat, boosted by the rollout of the paper's weekend section this year. Meanwhile, Yedioth Ahronoth's ad space rose just 10%.

Yedioth Ahronoth also has been forced to lower its ad rates by about 20% over the last year, according to ad buyer Rony Aran, who heads the Israeli branch of media firm OMD. Mr. Aran says the decline reflects the competition from Yisrael Hayom as well as the migration of advertising to the Internet.

Now that Yisrael Hayom is catching up with Yedioth Ahronoth, the challenger can focus on turning a profit, though that could still be years off.

"The key to their success is that they have very deep pockets, and can live with quite substantial losses from three to five years, says Prof. Bakker, at Utrecht University. "And if Adelson wants to sustain it until the end of his life he can do it."

Yisrael Hayom Publisher Asher Barahav declines to predict when Yisrael Hayom will become profitable, though he insists that Mr. Adelson expects to get a return on his investment—without charging readers.

Mr. Barahav says that when Mr. Adelson entered the Israel newspaper market several years ago, he acknowledged the challenge of newspaper readers migrating to the Internet. "He said that, 'I think that the future is going to be with a real newspaper that will be free and covered by advertising,' " Mr. Barahav recalls. "Sheldon was right, like he is always right."

hagee

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/24/standing-up-for-israel-2/

Media Bias FIFO

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Shattered_Lens_Part_2_-_Abusing_Sport_for_Propaganda.asp

France24 Globes

http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000604387

globes Itai Greene

http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000604387

sounds like tzipi at IDC

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/for-israel-delegitimization-is-becoming-an-excuse-1.327551

advocacy

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/lieberman-urges-europe-embassies-to-use-allies-and-lobbying-firms-to-up-pr-efforts-1.327261

IBA English Channel

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=195974

Media war against the Jews

Murdoch...read

Spanish antisemitism

"The conference organizers did not deny that the Spanish media's coverage of the Middle-Eastern conflict borders on obsessiveness."
read maybe Livni is correct: it is all our fault (the victim mentality).

war against the jews

rupert murdoch...read

branding israel

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one of these days it will be done properly in the global media

WPP

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Edelstein:Anti-Israel reports led to anti-Semitic incidents

Edelstein said the best approach to handling anti-Israel boycotts is to
spread information about how relevant Israel is to the world and thereby
change the atmosphere that makes such boycotts accepted...read

spain loves us???

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Haaretz: What a great newspaper

brainwashing children...read

Our hero: Gideon Levy

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Blair: Delegitimization of Israel is affront to humanity

the best speaker at the conference...read Blair said that "a consistent conversation I have with some, but by no means all, of my European colleagues, is to argue not to apply rules to the government of Israel that they would never dream of applying to
their own governments or their own countries."

Edelstein tells it like it is!!

Yuli Edelstein writes: "In my opinion, this approach does entail going “head to head” with pro-Arab propaganda through the media, but must come from the grass roots – unequivocally and at the interpersonal level."

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Thomas Friedman again...

I'm not here to defend Israel's bad behavior...read

Whither Israel's Al-Jazeera

everybody wants it...read

Jews dominate the media

no further need for IWTV!!...read

Bashir: Man of Peace

is the debka story real???... if so, is it reported in the Israeli press??? read

Online Advertising

Bibi dreams of 24-hour,multi-language news network

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Daily Telegraph

more media bias...read

Europe's "Decoy Jews"

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Child Martyrs

Incitement!!...Birds of Paradise...view

TV and online Ads

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Research Brief: Agency Clients Focused on TV

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Israel government PR

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startup nation

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Ad tracking

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TBN and IPTV

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BBC Honest reporting

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CBN and delegitimatization

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NY Times quotes Haaretz

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday quoted a senior Israeli official as saying, "In the last few days, we have received reports about the intention of several participant states to depart from the issue of fighting terrorism and instead misuse the event to goad Israel" over the nonproliferation treaty...read

Can CNN Be Saved?

red meat?

CNN vs Fox

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Peer News

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Evangelical Christians are allies

Israel's staunchest allies—even as some American Jews are made uneasy by the show of support...read more

The Hasbara challenge

We can't counter Arab PR by telling people Israel invented cell phone...
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Do something-Marker

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The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2010

read more

fee dispute

Walt Disney (DIS) and Cablevision (CVC) are involved in a fee dispute
that could result in New York's WABC-TV disappearing for Cablevision
viewers this weekend.read

Israel PR campaign

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hazbarah

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china media

ask ron lauder....read

CNN in Gaza

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Hazbarah in Hebrew

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Israel's PR/Media shortfall

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Internal Israel PR campaign

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Great Development for IWTV

Israel faces global delegitimization campaign

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Could cable lose its grip on TV business?

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Honest reporting

Shapira refused to say which of his students had taken part in the Yasuf
mosque arson. (Of course we all know it was one of
them)...read

arabic israel discussion BBC

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Bless their hearts

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Web Jihad

Where are we?? read

Boycott Israel Films

doesn't anybody want to stand up !! this is getting sickening...read

State Comptroller: Israel losing PR battle to 'anti-Semitic' Al-Jazeera

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web cams israel

view

IBA Lockout

I wonder what their wage levels are?...read<

Jewish Film Festival

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democracy broadcasting

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It has to be removed...

view view

China: Israel always on front page

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Hazbarah

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