Slippery Slope

A new reporter, Ze’ev Schneider, was recently appointed to the news division of the national radio broadcaster, Kol Yisrael, without being assigned a regular field of coverage.  Schneider has no prior experience in journalism, and did not pass a journalism course.  Schneider’s father is Nehemia Schneider, a Likud activist who serves as a paid advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

(Hebrew – The Marker)

The Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to disclose its budget for 2011 and its proposed budget for 2012.

(Hebrew)

The Civil Service Commission has asked the Israel Broadcasting Authority to investigate whether or not the Israel Radio director, Miki Miro,  engaged in outside work on several occasions, without permission and in violation of both civil services and IBA regulations.

Communications Minister, Moshe Kahlon, admitted last April that the recent change of personnel at the Israel Broadcasting Authority was politically motivated. Kahlon, talking to a closed forum at the Etzel Museum in Tel Aviv, admitted that he wanted to influence the authority’s views in favour of the settler movement.

(Hebrew)

Broadcasting Authority workers claimed in a session with the Press Council, that the Prime Minister’s office called Channel One TV in the evening of the 300 thousand rally of the Tents Protest, and demanded that the reporters and anchors stop reporting the number of demonstrators throughout the country.

(Hebrew)

Mordechai Shklar, CEO of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, instructed Yoram Cohen, Director of the Channel 1 News Division, to refrain from broadcasting an investigative report about the relationship between Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his wife Ronit with Boaz Harpaz, who is involved with the Galant Document affair (Hebrew).