Tag Archive for 'news'

To snow, or not to snow…

It’s 6 p.m., and all the Israeli news can report about is the impending ’snow storm’. It’s been hyped about all day, with news reporters actually looking excited as the students who await instruction to stay home from school tomorrow.
The sky has been eerie and gray and has given an extra-apocalyptic feel to the whole [...]

Today’s word: Etrog Journalism.

I learned a new word - or rather, term - today at the Arab-Israeli Journalism panel I sat on: etrog journalism.
The idea, thunk up by a Haaretz reporter a few years ago, is that certain items of news need to be treated as delicately as an etrog, the yellow citrus fruit we Jews use on [...]