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Public Audience at Television
IBA's Channel 1 "Politica"


Ehud Barak, shouts to the audience.
Courtesy Yediot Haacharonot 2.2.1999

Channel One Rules: 
No Audience at "Politica" Show
 
IsraelWire, Feb 02, 1999
 Following an outburst of boos against Labor
Party prime minister candidate Ehud Barak, the state-run 
Channel 1 Television has announced there will be no audience
permittted during political debates from now until the May 17th 
national elections.

On Monday night's program, on which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,
MK Ehud Barak and MK Yitzchak Mordechai were interviewed, Barak was 
the target of the audience's obvious right-wing preferences.

Despite efforts to silence the crowd, Barak had difficulty 
speaking-being constantly interrupted by the participating audience.

On the next morning, Barak was severely pressed by Kol Yisrael
radio talk show host Shelly Yechimovitz.  Barak found it diffcult to
counter her claim that Barak had simply not succeeded in getting his own
people in.  Had he, she noted, the shouting would have been
balanced and Barak wouldn't be complaining.
 

Ehud Barak, shouts "Shame!" to 
the D-G of Channel 1, Uri Porat.
Courtesy Yediot Haacharonot 2.2.1999
Arutz Sheva News Service
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1999 / Sh'vat 16,5759

No Audience Participation

Political talk shows on Israel's Channel One television will
be broadcast with no studio audience until after the elections.
So decided Israel Broadcast Authority Director-General Uri
Porat, after last night'scontroversial "Politika" broadcast.
The audience at the show jeered and booed Labor party leader
Ehud Barak and, to a lesser extent, centrist partyleader Yitzchak
Mordechai. Prime Minister Netanyahu had earlier received a
warm welcome from the same crowd.

Porat and Netanyahu both denied Labor party claims this morning
that the rowdy audience consisted of Likud activists who arrived
at the program en masse. "I do not like to see this type of behavior,"
said Prime Minister Netanyahu today, "and they should have
expressed their feelings differently. But I would like to note that
this is exactly the type of behavior exhibited towards me by the
opposition whenever I speak in the Knesset."


Itzic Mordechai is angry!
Courtesy Yediot Haacharonot 2.2.1999
Biased presentation of the events
in newspaper Maariv, 2.2.1999.

The large title: (cercled in pink)
"Ehud Barak supporters were not allowed to enter the studio of "Politica",
followed by the end of the sentence (cercled in green) , in more little character, separate from the title: "claimed the Labor party".

The quick reader will only see the title "Ehud Barak supporters were not allowed to enter the studio of "Politica", thinking that this is a fact, whereas it is only a claim from the Labor party !

Ban on live TV audience in Israel

Source: Jerusalem Post Feb. 3, 1999

Israel state television and radio yesterday banned audiences from live
political programmes as a leading show host expressed fears that someone
might be killed during a broadcast.The decision was taken following
Monday night's political programmewhich turned into the site of a verbal
battle between supporters of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Labour Party leader Ehud Barakwhen the two were interviewed
one after the other. Barak was met with boos and was constantly jeered.
Centrist party leader Yitzhak Mordechai,who appeared later on the show,
was also heckled.The programme's host, Ya'acov Ahimeir, said he had not
been able to calmthe crowd, and he feared that a political murder could take
place duringa live broadcast.''I'm afraid that at this stage in Israel's political life
you cannotconduct a civil discussion between three or two political enemies
in the national election campaign.... And it's even more impossible with the
presence of the audience. There was an atmosphere of extreme political
violence in the television studio,'' he said.

IMW is a registered non-profit organization whose major aim is assuring the ethical and fair conduct of the Israeli media. 

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