Articles

This article from The Seventh Eye describes the autonomy of the economic sections of Israel's large newspapers. Comparing the reactions of the news pages and the economic pages to the 2003 "Poverty Report," Arbel highlights the media's sway toward the economic ideology of the right, and asserts that the media is legitimizing the separation between social and economic sectors by creating a dialogue that separates economic policy from political and social issues.

In this article for The Seventh Eye, published on October 31, 2004, Gili Drob-Hiestien describes a legal saga regarding sex advertising in newspapers, in which legal action did not stop the publication of prostitution advertisements and the Knesset intervened. Eventually newspapers refused to advertise sex services.

According to Tamar Guttman, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Tel Aviv University, there is little room for enthusiasm regarding the way Israel’s mainstream media addressed the subject of the disengagement plan. In this article, originally published in The Seventh Eye on October 31, 2004, Guttman explains that the media was usually preoccupied with the petty, marginal, and sensationalist aspects of the initiative, systematically failing to examine the important issues raised by the withdrawal from Gaza or to ask difficult questions.

In this article, originally published in Hebrew in Yedioth Ahronoth, IDI Former President and Founder Dr. Arye Carmon argues that Israel must say an emphatic "no" to the presidential regime and a resounding "yes" to reinforcing parliamentary democracy in Israel.

In an article from The Seventh Eye, Uzi Benziman asserts that for twenty years, the press has focused on the personalities of candidates rather than their doctrines and predicts that the 2003 elections in Israel will suffer the same fate. In his estimation, the media is asleep and will will "wake up and kick itself" after the election.