Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: ecco perchè di Gaza in Israele non si sa niente

This past Sunday something important happened. Part of the local,
popular press that shapes mass opinion - the Yedioth Ahronoth and
Maariv dailies, to be specific - decided that the killing of over 60
residents of Gaza in one day by our soldiers is not a story. The
proof: There is no mention of it, not even implied, on the first pages
of these two newspapers, their obvious showcase.
One's eyes refused to believe it. Not a single word. Maariv's first
page showed a huge picture of a wounded IDF fighter, a threatening
headline stating, "In the cross hairs: Hamas' leaders," plus
information about the number of Qassam and Grad missiles that fell on
Sderot and Ashkelon, and a promise: "It's not war yet." As if to say:
We're only in the "promo" stage. Only on the margins of page 3, in
tiny letters, was there a first mention: About 95 Palestinians killed
since Wednesday. A first picture of the killing and the outcry in Gaza
on page 6.
Yedioth goes even further, as if to say: Everything that Maariv can
do, we can do better. Not a word on the first page about the dozens of
Palestinian dead. Only a huge picture of a wounded soldier being
evacuated by helicopter (when in Gaza the ambulances do not even have
gas to allow them to evacuate their wounded). The headline: "Hundreds
of fighters deep in Gaza," a promise that "this is not 'the' major
operation," a confession from the mother of one of the two soldiers
who were killed ("I dreamed that they were informing me that my son
had been killed"), and the number of rockets landing in Sderot and
Ashkelon. The first mention of Palestinian dead appeared only on the
margins of page 3, in small letters.
"A city without defenses" - that is, of course, Ashkelon. There is
nothing else in the region, and not a single picture, please note, not
a single image in Yedioth of the killing and suffering in Gaza in all
the pages of the newspaper - except for a tiny photo of a demolished
house. Among all the photos of Sderot and Ashkelon, the heart-rending
confessions and the human-interest reportage about the fear and the
relatively light destruction in these two cities, there was no room to
print even one photo of bleeding Gaza? Of one wounded child? Of one
fearful mother, as in Sderot? One picture that would illustrate to
some degree, at least, the dimensions of the mass killing we have
sowed? One picture like those that adorned the first pages of most of
the newspapers in the world that day? No. Not here. Not in "the
newspaper of the country."
These two newspapers now boast new, relatively young and promising
editors. The days of Rafi Ginat at Yedioth and Amnon Dankner at Maariv
are over. Instead we have highly regarded editors who give us reason
for hope: Shilo De-Beer at Yedioth, and Doron Glazer and Ruti Yuval at
Maariv. What did they think when they opened their papers on Sunday
morning? That this is professional journalism? That this is the proper
service they owe their readers? That they don't deserve to see with
their own eyes at least a hint of what happened in Gaza?
This is how one shapes the opinions of the public - and also how one
brainwashes it. Penetrating op-eds convince the already convinced, and
only the flow of information determines one's awareness. The local
popular press, almost free of censorship, highly professional and in
part also selling well, opted for the gravest thing of all: self-
censorship, of the kind that will never arouse any signs of
opposition.
One day, when the historian or researcher burrows in the archives of
these newspapers and tries to understand what happened here, he won't
be able to understand a thing. He will only know that we had a press
here that betrayed its role.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961666.html

 of these two newspapers, their obvious showcase.
URCA!  Non era in PRIMA PAGINA!!!!!
MINCHIAA!!!!!!
-Stefano