The government plans to transfer hundreds of millions of the budget intended for the corporation, in favor of the other commercial channels. One of the clear goals of the government is to strengthen Channel 14 and provide it with financial support
The government’s plan to weaken the corporation: Communications Minister Shlomo Karai has been speaking out in recent weeks about the new government’s plans to weaken the news division of the public broadcasting corporation ‘Kan’, claiming that it “does not represent the citizens of Israel” and therefore – there is no need for the state to fund it but It must be privatized.
In the meantime, according to a report this evening (Tuesday) in ‘News 13’, the government, under the leadership of Communications Minister Karai, plans to transfer hundreds of millions of the budget intended for the broadcasting corporation, for its original productions and series – in favor of the other commercial channels. According to the report, one of the clear goals of the government is to strengthen Channel 14 and provide it with financial support.
In addition, the government intends to establish a fund, the purpose of which is to create competition between the various channels for budgeting from the state. The purpose of establishing the fund is to moderate the opposition in the commercial channels to the closure of the corporation. As a result of the fund that will be established, these channels will be able to benefit from the budgets, which were allocated, among other things, for the benefit of the corporation.
It should be noted that when looking at Karai and Netanyahu’s reform of the media, one should also take into account the words of the Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar, who set a kind of undefined threshold for government funding of cultural works, within which the budget will be excluded from cultural works, which allegedly cause damage to the good name of the State of Israel .