Comments on: Maariv daily paper purchased by ultra-rightist publisher

By: Noam Sheizaf

Noam Sheizaf — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:55:52 +0000

Unlike Maariv, Yedioth never issued stocks to the public so it doesn’t have to publish its financial reports. The speculations are that they are doing ok, but extremely worried from the future.

By: Mitchell Cohen

Mitchell Cohen — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:52:08 +0000

What’s up with Yediot Ahronot? I have seen that paper being given away for free (and I don’t mean on El Al). Are they on the verge of bankruptcy as well?

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:35:02 +0000

So… Isn’t Haaretz having financial difficulties as well? I can’t wait until Gideon Levy and Amira Hass join 972mag as unpaid bloggers, eh, because I care so deeply about the success of 972mag, obviously.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:28:03 +0000

Maariv has a 13% national market share, more than double that of Haaretz. That is a lot of non-settler eyeballs. Maariv wasn’t exactly left-wing before, so I don’t know if it going slightly more to the right will have much significance. They are going from being edited by a former Bibi spokesman to being edited to a former Bibi chief of staff.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:16:43 +0000

This will probably have no real political significance, since Ma’ariv has been on a downward trajectory for the better part of a decade, and has, in the last few years, become one of the worst rags to be produced in Israel today (I would rate it below Israel Hayom). Netanyahu won’t be able to extract too much political capital from this sh’mateh of a newspaper for precisely the reason it is out of business – it has no readers and no prospects for acquiring any in the future. I say to the settlers who will now embrace this paper – enjoy the literary stylings of the great and talented Ma’ariv writers. At least Ben Caspit still has a job!

By: Philos

Philos — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:47:27 +0000

Democracy, shumcracy

By: Bluegrass Picker of Afula

Bluegrass Picker of Afula — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:27:22 +0000

nice discussion of the fact that journalists produce a ==product== to be peddled; and that the marketplace for Lefty dissing of Israel is virtually all people who are too lazy to learn to read Hebrew, and who can’t vote in Israel:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/the-newsonomics-of-israels-first-paywall/

By: Bluegrass Picker of Afula

Bluegrass Picker of Afula — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:20:01 +0000

At the beginning of time, there were maps published which showed that the Earth is flat and that if you sail to the edge…. you fall off the Earth.

once people understood that such a factual description was wrong….. the inventory of those maps completely lost their market value. No one would actually pay to have one.

Once people realized that Israeli Leftist Journalists are mis-representing facts, and fabricating false allegations…. they ALSO couldn’t sell their newspapers any more!!

It’s ok. The inventory can still be used to wrap fish.