ISRAEL — Many in the religious and ultra-Orthodox society blame the media of being hostile towards them, and a new study that was recently released found that most seculars agree.
According to the study, 66% of seculars think that the media coverage of the haredi sector is unfair and unbalanced, and effectively contributes to fueling tensions between the different sectors in Israeli society.
Most Seculars Believe Media Biased Against Charedim
ISRAEL — Many in the religious and ultra-Orthodox society blame the media of being hostile towards them, and a new study that was recently released found that most seculars agree.
According to the study, 66% of seculars think that the media coverage of the haredi sector is unfair and unbalanced, and effectively contributes to fueling tensions between the different sectors in Israeli society.
The survey, conducted by head of the School of Communication at the Ariel University Center, Prof. Yosel Cohen, and head of the Department of Communications at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel Dr. Orli Zarfati, will be presented Tuesday at the 25th annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies in Beersheba.
Some 260 respondents, either university or yeshiva students, participated in the poll. Sixty-nine percent of seculars and 83% of haredim said that the media had a negative effect on haredi-secular relations, while 86% of national-religious respondents and 52% of seculars felt this way about the media’s effect on religious-secular relations.
‘Media a meeting point’
The study also found that 74% of seculars defined their knowledge of the haredi public as “poor,” while 88% of them admitted that the secular media is their primary source of information on this society. Thirty-nine percent of seculars said they would like to see the media expand its coverage of the ultra-orthodox world.
Among haredim, only 40% said that the press is their number one source for information on the secular society, and only 17% wish the haredi media pay more attention to secular issues.
Prof. Cohen explained that “the media is a meeting point that introduces one community to the other, and it certainly has an effect and influence on the relations between them.”
Cohen said that while the ultra-orthodox press presents the secular world as one of “non-Jewish” values, the secular media emphasizes the fact that haredim do not participate in public life like other sectors.
While seculars exhibit positive curiosity towards the haredi way of life, said Cohen, “the media hardly manages to penetrate through the black haredi attire.”
hmm
Biased against?
I do not think that is proper english.
anonymous
biased against is perfectly proper
hmm
it is u can be biased (nogei’ah b’dovor) for or against a netiyah
to #2
perfectly proper is also not good english.
Once it’s perfect, then of course it is proper.
Rifckin
NO no hmm is right its french.
SHLUCHA
GET A LIFE………..
to #6
Thank you,
to you too.
And by the way it’s either Shalucha or Shelucha but not Shlucha
Good Luck!
DrumIntellect
to #2: Perfection doesn’t mean proper. Something can be perfect and not be proper. For example, something can be “perfectly improper” or “perfectly awful”.
to #6: The word that you are trying to correct is a transliteration of a Hebrew word. There are multiple correct spellings of transliterated words, as you alluded to. Shlucha is a correct spelling as well. Just as Shlimazel is correctly spelled without an “a” or “e” between the “h” and “l”. (http://www.merriam-webster….)
Az bo-u n-dayek
‘Seculars’ isn’t either proper English. Secular is an adjective, not a noun.
However, as this article is about a study done in Israel, chances are that it’s been roughly translated from a Hebrew version.
Translation is always tough, as there are often popular words in one language that don’t translate right in another, such as ‘chilonim’ (‘seculars’ in the article) or ‘chareidim’ (they didn’t even try;D)
Az bo-u n-dayek
In response to SHLUCHA-
Your comment isn’t very constructive. Those few readers who point out errors actually help raise the level of the articles written here; many of which are seriously lacking in spelling and grammar.
You may tell people who enjoy reading material that is written properly (=according to linguistic conventions) to “GET A LIFE!”, but the truth of the matter is that in your own line of work, linguistics are very important!
Improper usage of punctuation, mixed metaphors, spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors plague most publications put out by shluchim- and I cannot tell you how much that affects the people who read them. It’s a shame you and many others in the Chabad world don’t care more about learning the language you profess to speak.
By way of comparison, lhavdil, think about the importance of each letter and vowel in the Tanach, in the Siddur, in the Tanya… The tiniest variation can change a phrase’s meaning entirely.
When a person who speaks and writes on or above a eighth-grade level reads your publications, the typos and mistakes stand out as if they’ve been highlighted, and drastically lower the level of interest for your programs, as well as their credibility.
So instead of telling someone interested in proper English to “GET A LIFE”, why don’t you examine your own command of the language and start producing well-written articles that will help remind (yourself and) your readers how to sound intelligent when they open their mouths.
Then, when a careful reader points out one of (hopefully) very few mistakes, maybe you’ll appreciate the fact that they care. Maybe, learning from every correction, you’ll even work towards a higher standard and in doing so, contribute to those around you.