Israel's Media Watch Lada'at (IMW) -Articles, op-ed and Reports

You are invited to review the op-ed articles, reports and press releases which reflect our criticism, as well as that of others, regarding instances of non-objective reporting, unbalanced news presentation and violations of the journalism ethics code by Israel's electronic media.

Israel's Media Watch update report # 53 November 8, 2000
- Amnesty International slams PA's draconian press policy
- CNN AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT
- Narrowing of the broad band; concentration of power in the media
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Blaming Sharon
- Israeli "Posturing": The lead news story in today's New York Times
- Jordan Press Association Expels Secretary General
- Disney Bans R-Rated Movie Ads Before 9 P.M. on ABC Network
- Spinning In His Grave? U.S. Media Silent As Leah Rabin Slams Barak

Israel's Media Watch update report # 46 May 28, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- Leftist cultural and political elite has in Israel, when acts of Arab violence break out
- Information and Disinformation Department of the Prime Minister's Office
- Ehud Barak brokered an arms deal with China
- The secular Israeli press & the "final agreement with Syria."
- French judge orders Yahoo to pay damages on anti-Semitic charges
- Sri Lankan Government shut down an opposition newspaper
- US Court Voids Law Limiting Sex Channels on Cable TV
- A Book Review

Israel's Media Watch update report # 45 May 23, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other) - Suspend Zohai Bahlul, a TV reporter
- The Palestinian Authority has opened a new radio station in Abu Dis
- Talk shows: Hitting bottom
- Military correspondents are shut out of Lebanon

Israel's Media Watch update report # 44 May 21, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- Chaim Yavin
- Rafik Chalabi, be suspended following his investigation by the police
- Nakdi Document
- Eitan Oren as a member of the journalists ethics committee !!!!
- Reply to IFJ IFEX (International Freedom of expression community): The journalists [were injured] by Palestinian armed police

Israel's Media Watch update report # 42 May 7, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- At Tel Aviv University: one of the most bitter attacks on the Jewish religion in Israel .

Israel's Media Watch update report # 41 April 28, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- The Vinograd Committee, established to plug police leaks and probe police investigations, recommended that a suspect's name not be published before he or she is indicted.

Israel's Media Watch update report # 40 April 17, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- American Yated Neeman: How Kol Israel Favors Reform and Discriminates Against the Religious
- Hizbollah is winning the TV war

Israel's Media Watch update report # 39 April 7, 2000
- IMW News
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News (Israel and Other)
- Kol Israel "Inyan Acher" ("Other Matter") radio program by Ms. Dalia Yairi, is extremely biased against the opposition, national right-wing.
-"Ma Boer" (What's Burning), broadcast over the Army radio (Galatz) is also biased but not as strongly
- Post-democracy: On the one hand, the media manufacture or distort news. On the other, certain groups cannot even gain a hearing for their views
Channel 2's Nissim Mishal screened a film clip of four guys in the Safed Cemetery invoking the Angel of Death to expedite the departure of the pope; That clip was eagerly seized upon by the world media...
Within two days, the police had arrested researcher Avishai Bar-Haim on suspicion of having staged the pulsa d'nura ceremony...

Israel's Media Watch update report # 38 April 4, 2000

Israel's Media Watch update report # 37 March 31, 2000

Israel's Media Watch update report # 36 March 24, 2000

Israel's Media Watch update report # 35 March 19, 2000
- Does a radio station operated by the military have any place in a democratic society?
- Itai Landsberg's article in "The Seventh Eye" of March 2000 for which he was summarily
dismissed from his position as deputy editor of the Channel One "Politika" program.
- A comment on the Vardi Report from the Charedi Press

Israel's Media Watch update report # 34 March 15, 2000
- IBA prohibts all discussion of the police raid on the Arutz 7 offices
- Eitan Oren and the staged swearing-in ceremony
- Conflict-of-interest involving Dalia Ya'iri of radio Kol Israel
- Deputy Editor of the Channel One "Politika" program, Itai Landsberg,
was fired after publishing an article critical of the IBA management
- MK: Communications Ministry holding up broadband launch
- Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, Ehud Ya'ari view
- Typical mindset of Israel's biased leftwing media personnel
- Abe Hirschfeld, former NYPost owner, broadcasted TV ads in Israel during election

Israel's Media Watch update report # 33 March 9, 2000
- Resignation of the Galatz commander, Dr. Zeev Drori
- Media Monitor International
- IMW protested this week to IBA Ombudsman
- The police responded to the IMW complaint against employees of Kol Israel Radio
- The satirical "Chartzufim" program
- On the invasion of privacy, Ofra Haza's death, By Orit Shohat
- Yitzhak Mordechai Affair
- Media Analysis By Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jerusalem Post
- TV Notes: NBC Quits the Club By Bill Carter

Israel's Media Watch update report # 32 March 2, 2000
- IMW New Website Name www.imw.org.il
- Vardi Report on IBA
- Recommendation: Fire the IBA Management
- Vardi: Replace 60 top people at IBA
- IBA Budget Approved; IMW Recommendation Adopted
- IMW and CAMERA Boards Meet
- IMW Bias Report on Dalia Ya'iri's morning interview program
- Dr. Ze'ev Drori, Galatz Director Resigns
- EYE ON THE MEDIA: Journalists as poodles By David Bar-Illan
- Jailed US editor gaining international support
- Canada: Journalists face self censorship
- Shut down the IBA - then reopen it

Israel's Media Watch update report # 31 February 25, 2000
- IMW has registered a new domain name www.imw.org.il
- Israel Broadcasting Authority high salaries
- Palestinian Authority environmental expert refused to share a podium with Israeli
- Arutz 7 Law
- Golan Settlers Council: CNN could sway referendum results
- Media steering public opinion towards Lebanon withdrawal
- STOPPING UP THE LEAKS
- Israel TV's romantic priest not funny, church says
- Islamic Association For Palestine
- Palestinian and Israeli intelligence cooperate to silence journalist
- FRAME GAME The Invisible Man by William Saletan
- The Left, this intellectual minority has a tremendous influence on the media...
- "Why Americans Hate The Media"

Israel's Media Watch update report # 30 February 18, 2000
- IMW court appearance in the matter of Eitan Oren was postponed.
- The Meretz website lists IMW under a heading "Danger"
- Broadcasting of adult programming outside the "watershed hour" time slot
- Israel's media is not just reporting the facts
- Dan Shilon
- Pointing a finger at the Likud faction spokesman in the shape of a gun and pretending to shoot
- The sound of the media's lips
- "The media is all Left": Shelly Yechimovicz
- Senior Lawyer Comments on Barak's Situation
- The media's angle in Lebanon
- "Three Fathers" critical of Israel Radio's private agenda
- Media in History - "De Relationibus Novellis"
- Office of The Islamic Association of Palestine

Israel's Media Watch update report # 29 - February 11, 2000
- Carmella Menasheh broadcast interviews with soldiers
- The supposed original film Eitan Oren recorded
- Attorney-General, Elyakim Rubinstein
- A bereaved parent claimed his words were taken out of context
- Censors in the matter of discussing on air the police raid against Arutz 7
- IBA's budget
- Dalia Ya'iri's Kol Yisrael program
- Shelly Yechimovicvz: "I voted for Chadash"
- Israeli TV under fire after filming wounded soldiers in Lebanon
- Peace Project January 2000 Survey : The Media
- Eye on the Media: "Retreat from courage" By David Bar-Illan:
- The coverage of the comptroller's report on Barak's nonprofit organizations
- Alternative action - By Lily Galili - Ha'aretz 4 Febrary 2000
- Barak Money In The Russian Sector Included Pay-Offs To Reporters
- Jordan's king promises greater press freedom
- In Egypt, Female journalists struggle against male dominance

Israel's Media Watch update report # 28 February 3, 2000

- IMW demand that Eitan Oren be indicted
- The Attorney-General's office
- Yaakov Achimeir, senior IBA TV correspondent
- Knesset's Finance Committee
- IMW complained to the new IBA Ombudsman
- Words of praise for IMW's activities
- "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
- The state-owned Television New Zealand (TVNZ)

Israel's Media Watch update report # 27 January 23, 2000

IMW Submits Complaint to Police Against Radio Censorship
New Date Set for High Court Petition Hearing
IMW Reps in Knesset Committee Hearings
IMW Seeks Halt to Use of US Anthem
EYE ON THE MEDIA: The journalist as parrot
US media accused of gun control bias
NATO under fire for misleading videos
US row as network alters news pictures
Editor walks out of Post
IMW News

Israel's Media Watch update report # 26 January 2000
- The High Court of Justice (Bagatz) instructed the State prosecutor's Office to provide IMW with the evidence the Eyal swearing-in ceremony
- Halaby May Be Indicted
- Words of Wisdom
- In Syria's tow By David Bar-Illan
- Likud slams media silence on Nava Barak's travels By David Zev Harris

Israel's Media Watch IMW Update Report - #24, December 20, 1999
- Help needed
- IMW news
- Words of Wisdom
- Media News from Other Places

Israel's Media Watch update report # 23 (December 1999)
- Ma'ariv editor Yaacov Erez: Ehud Barak, as PM, is the realization of a goal ...
- Broadcasting of the Eyal swearing-in ceremony will be prohibited
- Avi Yitzhak / Avramovicz affair
- and more ...

Israel's Media Watch update report # 22 (November 1999)
- Law Prof. Ruth Gavison criticizes the legal Israeli establishment;
- Beinish - Raviv document, Prof' Eliav Shochatman
- The assassination of PM Rabin and GSS.

Update report n# 21 - October 21, 1999

Update report n# 20 - September 28, 1999

Update report n# 17 - July 27, 1999

Update report n# 16 - July 4, 1999

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