Requirement: suspend Aryeh Golan because of an interview with Meir Porush

'Public's Right to know Association', appealed yesterday to the director Kol Yisrael demanding to suspend the B network journalist, Aryeh Golan. This was followed by an interview conducted the day before with the designated MK Meir Porush, in the program 'This Morning'.

In the letter the Association complains that the course of the interview was against the ethics of the Broadcasting Authority, whereby individual expression is forbidden on the broadcast news of the Broadcasting Authority, much less the aggressive tone, amputation words of the interviewee and so on.

The Association believes that the interview was aggressive, bordered racism by the interviewer, and generally conducted unprofessionally while expressing a personal clear and unequivocal position in favor of recruiting the charedim. Association protests Golan's position as a public representative and his opinion is the only one which reflects the national position.

Prof. Eli Pollak, chairman of the Association: "The issue of equality burden is complex and loaded. It has many meanings and implications. It also includes the Arab – Israeli public. But all these did not prevent Mr. Golan from viewing the charedim clearly and exclusively as "villains" in the story. Also, when raising the subject of equal burden, conducting an interview in this way is intolerable.

"Mr. Golan's job to ask harsh questions is irritating, but it should be avoided of using the public microphone to promote his personal opinion. The conduct in this case is equivalent to theft of a public resource that does not belong to him. Ethics of IBA outright reject such conduct."

At the end of their letter the Association demands to know that Aryeh Golan has been suspended from the broadcast of this week, in order to clarify that the unprofessional conduct of this kind is not acceptable.

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