Channel 10 News Presents: Reheating Leftovers From Yesterday’s TV Dinner
Two weeks ago Channel 10 News’ Miki Haimovich conducted an interview with Nobel laureate Ada Yonath. The following day, Channel 10’s morning show re-edited the interview to make it look as though the morning hosts Haim Etgar and Sivan Cohen are conducting the interview themselves. This was recently mentioned in Yediot Ahronot but I thought I would create a video to demonstrate this journalistic atrocity:
Now people may ask “What’s the big deal? Instead of this person doing the interview, you get that person”. Well, I contend that this is a big deal since unlike other professions like advertising, sales or law where honesty is no longer expected -- in journalism, credibility is currency. We don’t expect our newsmen to lie to us -- not intentionally, not wittingly -- and finding out otherwise is disheartening.
Update: You can read this post in Hebrew here.
25 October 2009 at 8:23 am Permalink
Thanks for this, and I agree entirely. It’s only one small step away from creating totally unrelated questions to fit the answers. D’you mind if I post this on my blog?
25 October 2009 at 9:05 am Permalink
@Goy: Feel free to post this. As you can see from the Creative Commons license, you don’t even need to ask, just as long as you follow the guidelines.