Rina Matzliah closes account: I left 'Futtar' - that Amit Segal will join there too

November 9, 2022   

Media personality Rina Matzliach, who resigned from News 12 this week, revealed a few days before her resignation her frustration with what is currently happening at the news company, where she worked for nearly 30 years. According to a report by David Wertheim on the Walla website, Matzliach participated in the "Shabtarbut" in Kfar Saba and said there: "All the journalists came out to defend Channel 14, not a single right-wing journalist came out to defend me when Bibi's people slaughtered me and wrote 'murder Rina Matzliach' at train stations. I was sitting in Ulpan Shishi and came out to defend Channel 14... The Netanyahu government has the power here to silence journalists in the most obvious way, and not just them. They have the power to harm the free press, the prosecutor's office, the police, the courts." Media personality Neve Dromi, who spoke with Matzliach, claimed on the other hand that it is true that there are right-wing journalists, but "they are being locked up in a ghetto at Channel 14." Matzlia lost her composure and shouted: "Amit Segal is right in the ghetto. Amit Segal is the most influential journalist in Israel. And he is definitely not alone. Want to count? Only here we have Ofer Hadad, Sivan Rahav Meir, Yair Sharki and there are others whose names I don't want to name because they didn't come out of the right-wing closet themselves.... Listen to Segal, he is the most prominent journalist here who gets the most screen time.... "What are you talking about? I left 'Meet the Press' so that Amit Segal could also join 'Meet the Press' because all the other programs aren't enough for him. What are you talking about? Channel 12 is a distinctly right-wing channel, with a big advantage for the right, including the editors of our programs who are all right-wing." Dromi gave as an example Amnon Abramowitz, Arad Nir and Danny Kushmaro - who are not right-wing, and Matzlia replied: "That's true. "We are not yet Channel 14 and there is room for additional opinions." Channel 12 chose not to respond to Walla's inquiry. Rina Matzliah denied saying the words.