This is the On the Media Podcast Extra.

I'm Michael Loeinger.

On the show this past week, we aired a conversation

with an Israeli journalist named Orrin Persico,

a staff writer at the Seventh Eye, which is an independent investigative magazine focused on media and freedom of speech in Israel.

I spoke to Orin about how despite the fact that nightmarish images of destruction in Gaza have filled

the news and social media fees for the last three months, within Israel the mainstream media

tells a very different story.

There was so much more that didn't make it into the show because of time restrictions, so

we're giving you an opportunity to hear a longer version here.

To kick it off, I asked him to give us a lay of the land, and also tell us a bit about where

Israelis have been getting their news lately.

Ever since the war started,

there's been a huge spike in ratings and TV and radio.

It's like two, maybe three times

the amount it was before, mostly on channel 12, that's the major commercial

TV channel in Israel.

You also have channel 14, which is a right-wing pro-Netaniu propaganda machine, which became the second most popular TV channel

in Israel during the past year even before the war and if you look at the main

websites you'll have Wienet which is the digital arm of Yedio TKronaut, a very big media corporation in Israel.

If you look at the newspapers, you have Israel Aon, which is a free newspaper,

Yediota-Gronaut, and Harrets, which is maybe more well-known outside Israel,

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