In some cases, however, this leads to the relaxation of journalistic norms. There is often no incentive to spend time checking a story thoroughly when the report may be pre-empted by the next hour's radio update, the two nightly newscasts or one of the other daily papers. Some journalists are satisfied with, at best, calling the subjects of investigations for comment or denial, but that is no substitute for a thorough check of the facts before a story is published. Paradoxically then, the increasing competition creates a kind of inflationary spiral in which journalistic norms may be increasingly ignored. Even though you have more television channels, they all try to find the lowest common denominator in order to compete.
Newspapers are more concerned with deviance than with normal news.
To a certain extent the media has become one large Jerry Springer Show . Three months ago we were all concerned about hunger in the country and the people who didn't have enough bread to eat. Today, we couldn't care less. Yet it can be overdone. It shows a healthy distrust in leaders and a healthy unwillingness on the part of the Israeli public to think of leaders as some kind of superhumans.