News media reported the other day that TVNZ cut way from its Olympics coverage to run an ad break instead. Here is how the NZ Herald reported it:
TVNZ has decided to stay quiet after copping criticism for flicking to an ad break during a moment of silence in the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony.
The moment was to honour those who had died throughout the world over the past 18 months because of Covid-19 that the ceremony paused for a minute’s silence.
At that same moment, TVNZ’s coverage cut from Tokyo to an advertisement break, immediately sparking a flood of outrage on social media.
While TVNZ had made viewers aware beforehand the coverage would not be an uninterrupted affair, it had noted it would only cut to ad breaks at carefully chosen moments.
NZ Herald
So there was an outcry on social media because TVNZ cut away from the one-minute of silence at the Tokyo games for those who died from Covid to go instead to an ad break.
Except that isn’t what happened. They cut away from the announcement that the minute of silence was also for the Israelis who died in the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich games.
Our anti-Semitic terrorist-hugging media didn’t want to cover that part. The announcement was historic, it is 49 years since the massacre and this is the first time they’ve ever been acknowledged by the Olympics. But TVNZ shamefully cut away.
Here is the actual announcement:
TVNZ have allowed their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel editorial position to compromise them and, worse, they lied about it.
No wonder trust in the media is so low.
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