Elitzur received support from unexpected quarters when Leah Rabin, speaking with famous radio personality Razi Barkai today, said that even the press deserves her thanks for its role in toppling "that bad government." 

Shimon Peres, too, interviewed by another top radio interviewer - Shelly Yechimovitz - a few days before the elections, told her sarcastically, "And when  you talk, it's not campaign propaganda?  You ask questions in a particular direction." 

Yechimovitz herself once said, "The press is leftist.  The
estrangement between the public and the press reaches new heights every
day"  (in Ma'ariv, Dec. 5, 1997), and, "The press does not want Binyamin
Netanyahu... and will work against Bibi" ( television program "Fact", Dec.
23, 1998).

Other quotes by journalists apropos the press' relationship with Prime
Minister Netanyahu:
* "We've never been as mobilized [as we are now] to topple Netanyahu." -
Ron Meiberg, Ma'ariv, Oct. 17, 1997
* "Left-wing journalists are not hostile to Netanyahu.  Hostile is a mild
word.  They hate him, they hold him in contempt, and to a certain degree
they spread false information about him." - Yaakov Achimeir, Jerusalem
Post, March 26, 1999
* "There is a group of left-wing journalists in whose eyes everything that
the left does is good and democratic, and everything the right-wing does is
contaminated with wickedness..." - Mati Golan, "7 Nights," Apr. 2, '99