When it comes to reporting certain news items there is a double standard in the frum charedi or even yeshiva world media outlets. The print papers and magazines are held to a much higher standard than the websites and online social media. The print media will face a boycott if they ever covered or reported on certain questionable stories that involve lashon hora or foreign hashkafos. They will never publish a picture of a women. Yet the frum news websites who are free to post what they want with no repercussions are patronized by the same advertisers and spokespersons who represent major frum Jewish organizations. The frum online media is currently very competitive and has brought down the already low bar eve further. Videos and stupidity are now news items simcha spreading websites have now changed to shmutz and what not in a ratings war and the frum news outlets have followed suit as they seek hits and compete with one another.
The print media have editors who must take responsibility for the content they publish but online its a free for fall with anonymous news editors hiding behind anonymous rabbis who they claim to seek guidance from. Lacking a kosher online platform the frum advertisers and organizations reach out to these websites to get their message out which validates the content published there. Just recently a headline on YWN reported about a gang of charedi teens. On that very page there were ads for Torah Umesorah, No talking in shul, Guard your eyes, and other organizations. FM was more than happy to share the story. You wont find that in any respected print media we read on shabbos if they did there would be a public outcry why is there a double standard we need a higher standard!
There is a deadly-double-standard
ReplyDeleteagaisnt Israel in the news-media.
Israel is being buried-alive under an
avalanche of media bias and false accusations.
These web sites can help refute those
biases and false accusations:
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HELP DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR MEDIA:
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www.camera.org
www.DanielPipes.org
www.FactsAndLogic.org
www.HonestReporting.com
www.memri.org
www.memriTV.org
www.MideastReporter.com
www.MythsAndFacts.org
www.TheIsraelProject.org
www.BBCwatch.org
www.jhrw.com
www.PalWatch.org
www.UKMediaWatch.org
www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html
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HELP SUE THE TERRORISTS:
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www.IsraelLawCenter.org
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HELP FIGHT ISRAEL-BASHING ON-CAMPUS:
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www.CameraOnCampus.org
www.DavidProject.org
www.Israel-Academia-Monitor.com
www.IsraCampus.org.il
www.JewHatredOnCampus.org
www.SSImovement.org
www.TheIsraelGroup.org
https://twitter.com/cmaccabees
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HELP-ISRAEL ORGANIZATIONS TO JOIN:
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www.afsi.org
www.IronDomeAlliance.com
www.IsraelBonds.com
www.KeepJerusalem.org
www.rza.org
www.vfi-usa.org
www.zoa.org
http://5tjt.com/how-aipac-failed-us/
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JEWISH VICTIMS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS:
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www.Terror-Victims.org.il
www.VictimsOfArabTerror.co [not com]
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ARABS AND MUSLIMS WHO BECAME PRO-ISRAEL:
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www.ActForAmerica.org
www.ArabsForIsrael.com
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Tehillim / Psalms, chapter 129, verse 5:
Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all haters of Zion.
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Now hamodia.com which is approved by rabbanim posts news reviewed by a 24x6 check it out for upto the minute news
ReplyDeleteWhich raabanim, preciously, "approve" hamodia.com?
DeleteThere may be some major issues with YWN and other sources. Howver, replacing YWN etc with Vus Iz Naeis or with Hamodia.com is ludicrous.
it is known hamodia a sa newspaper same with there website has every article before being posted
DeleteI read the Yated editorial and they quoted not from a sefer or famous Rav but from a recent song written By Rechnitz.. i mean they are great guys and baalei tzedaka but lets not quote from a song..
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ReplyDeleteAs Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz sings on his latest album, “Yomai ovrim yomai kolim… lo ira ra atoh imodi… motzoacha motzu chaim, zorcha chama zorcha nafshi, baTorah hakedoshah ani ameil, zorcha chama zorcha nafshi chayeini Keili ad biyas hagoel... lo lishkoach, tomid lismoach, zechor lodaas es matnosecha.” Though there is enough cause for a person to become disillusioned in this tough world of ours, the one with faith and appreciation of Hashem’s gifts forges ahead happily, for he knows that in the merit of his belief and Torah, he will be blessed.
That's the power of the internet.
ReplyDeleteYou say "the print papers and magazines are held to a much higher standard" - by whom are they held to this higher standard?
Do most of our rabbonim (excluding the chasidishe) say that it's ossur to print a picture of a woman in a newspaper? Would the majority of their readership really protest if they published articles about the real topics that they are concerned about (yes, some publications do a better job at that then others)?
Or is it to keep up circulation with the broadest based group possible, and not to "offend" very vocal minorities, that the publications end up just appealing to the lowest common denominator?
That's the power of the internet. It lets the common man be heard. The people get to vote with their clicks. To the extent there is loshon hora or other devorim assurim on any particular site, then it's our fault that we still visit those sites as much as the sites themselves.
Well said. Rabbi Mizrach says the same thing in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55T2aD7IXA
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