Posted on 02/22/2018 5:58:54 AM PST by Nextrush
Walla news site CEO Ilan Yeshua recorded Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch pressing him to tilt the site's coverage in favor of the prime minister and his family, report says
The police reportedly have a tape of Israeli telecom mogul Shaul Elovitch pushing for positive coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu on his company's news site, the latest thorn in the prime minister's side as he tried to deflect claims that he offered a quid pro quo for positive news coverage.
According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday, the CEO of the Walla news site has given the police recordings in which Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Walla's parent company Bezeq, is pressuring the CEO to tilt the site's coverage in favor of Netanyahu and his family.
The providing of the recordings by the Walla CEO, Ilan Yeshua, could strengthen the police in one of their two investigations into whether Netanyahu offered a quid pro quo for positive coverage by a major Israeli news organization.
Netanyahu, who also served as communications minister from 2014 to 2017, is suspected of giving huge benefits to Bezeq via Shlomo Filber, who took over a director general of the Communications Ministry in June 2015. In return, Elovitch, is suspected of having the site publish favorable of Netanyahu and his wife Sara.
Filber, who has turned state's evidence in the case, began to give testimony to the police on Wednesday. According to the Israel Television News Company, formerly known as Channel 2, Filber said he was expressly instructed by Netanyahu to aid Bezeq....
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His enemies have momentum but what will his response be?
Plenty of speculation at this point.
Scandalous allegations have been a way of life in Israel for politicians of all stripes for many decades.
I'm pro-Israel but people are human and they make mistakes. What this leads to remains to be seen.
LOL. If pressing your news organization for positive coverage of a politician was a crime, every news organization owner in America would be in jail after the Obama era and Clinton campaign.
A blogpost discussion of the politcal situation in Israel and possible outcomes.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2018/02/natanyahu-is-finished.html
You would think they should be but the cops are looking at that angle to prove that Netanyahu used his power as Communications Minister, a post he held alongside his Prime Minister’s position from 2014 to 2017, to help Bezeq make more money by messing with communications regulations.
LOL. If pressing your news organization for positive coverage of a politician was a crime, every news organization owner in America would be in jail after the Obama era and Clinton campaign.
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Exactly. And what if the owner thinks that his station’s coverage is slanted unreasonably against the politician?
American networks do it all the time. The whole LameStreamMedia execs line up like chorus girls to insure their networks did the CanCan for Obama. Hell, they even had weekly meetings with Obama admin, to discuss how best they could sell Obama’s agenda. Apparently it wasn’t a crime. So what gives in Israel? Their deep state is as leftist as ours; that’s what.
I agree.
There’s the basis for an investigation in this country, I would guess, but don’t expect it to happen because of the “deep state” here.
John McCain’s connections to defense contractors and media companies come to mind.
No investigations coming there either......
Yeah, so??
And the CRIME associated with pushing positive news coverage is.....?
Haaretz is the left wing Israeli rag that wants Israel wiped out more than the muslims do.
“According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday, the CEO of the Walla news site has given the police recordings in which Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Walla’s parent company Bezeq, is pressuring the CEO to tilt the site’s coverage in favor of Netanyahu and his family.”
SO WHAT.
There is no crime there.
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Interesting that would be a crime in Israel.
It will be interesting to see if our news media can report this with a straight face.
just as series as “collusion,” no doubt.
Yahoo, Facebook, Google, MSN.com don’t tilt their coverage?
Go on, tell another one!
It is what it is, but the implication is that financial gain for Bezeq was in the mix through manipulation of government regulations by Netanyahu’s man at the Ministry of Communications.
Doesn’t smell good to me.
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