The pair of presenters on Channel 2, Kalman Libeskind and Assaf Lieberman, who enjoy particularly high listening rates for their program, claim that the Likud party has decided to boycott them and not allow Knesset members to be interviewed by them | This is the reason for their claim
The Likud party announced the boycott of the Kalman-Lieberman show, in which interviewees from the party will not be broadcast. This is what the presenter Assaf Lieberman claims in a post he published on social networks. This is the popular current affairs program of Network B which is presented every morning by media persons Assaf Lieberman and Kalman Libeskind.
In a long post published by Lieberman, he lays out his version of the boycott and also attaches an excerpt from an interview with future MK Boaz Bismut which did not sit well with the Likud campaign managers. We were told by the Knesset member that the Likud forbids him to be interviewed by us. When we turned to the Likud to check what happened, they explained to us that not only Shikli will not be interviewed by us, but no Likud member is allowed to talk to us. That is, a boycott.” Assaf Lieberman says so.
According to him, “The Likud – a not unimportant party, which claims to return to being a ruling party – announces a boycott of a not unimportant current affairs program, with half a million daily listeners. Why? I know of cases where political figures take such a drastic step and it usually happens because of a violation of summaries early. A politician tells a journalist something off the record and the journalist violates the agreements and publishes anyway. This is an unsightly event and it may lead to an unsightly measure such as a boycott.
But us? What did we do?”.
“Well, the reason why Likud is angry with us, to the point of boycotting us, is an interview we conducted about a month ago with the party’s new member, Boaz Bismut. At a time when it is customary to argue against the media, it deals with gossip, gossip, yes Bibi not Bibi, who will sit with whom, etc., we We asked Bismuth what the Likud’s plans are regarding the judicial system. After all, Netanyahu and his MKs talk so much about the changes required in the judicial system, so we told ourselves that it would be worthwhile to check with one of the party’s candidates for the Knesset what changes the party is proposing.”
Presenter Lieberman continues and scrolls: “We insisted on receiving concrete ideas and you are welcome to judge the answer for yourself. In any case, Likud exploded on this and that is why they are boycotting us. A party that claims to lead the country is boycotting a press outlet because of the presenters’ insistence on receiving an answer about its plans for the future. A scandal in my eyes We will continue to fight this decision, welcome to share and help us.”