Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karaisent an unusual letter today (Wednesday) to the members of the corporation’s council in which he claimed that the corporation violates the provisions of the Public Broadcasting Law in the way it covers the legal reform.
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“In recent weeks, the Israeli government, which was elected in legal elections and won a clear majority, is promoting changes in the legal system. A review, obviously not exhaustive, of the contents of the corporation as recently broadcast shows that the corporation is grossly trampling on its duty and severely harming the public interest on whose behalf it purports to broadcast.” Wrote and noted a number of examples from the corporation’s content regarding the legal reform as recently broadcast.
Minister Karai mentioned, among other things, the journalist’s article Dov Gil-Har About the legal system in Poland and its immigration. “The reporters exaggerated and made a connection between the legal reform and the public broadcasting policy, in a way that puts them in a serious conflict of interest,” it said. He also noted: “In the corporation’s coverage, the reform is repeatedly referred to as a ‘revolution’. In my understanding, this is not a matter-of-fact description but propaganda and taking a clear and biased position in relation to the subject of the coverage.”
At the end, the minister demanded that the members of the council “fulfill their duty and make use of the public resource entrusted to them in a way that will serve the entire population and in a way that will bring to light the diversity of opinions in the Israeli public.”