The largest-ever number of ex-journalists are poised to enter Knesset. Here’s the money quote from Haaretz:
Not all journalists are thrilled with the trend. Former Davar editor Danny Bloch, for instance, believes there ought to be a cooling off period for journalists entering politics. Otherwise, he warned, readers will begin suspecting that journalists' coverage of political parties is influenced by their desire to secure a safe slot on a given party's slate.
Talk about conflict of interest: It's been documented that some veteran Israeli journalists, including the Labor Party's Shelly Yachimovich, formerly of Reshet Bet News, deliberately “slanted the news towards a withdrawal from Lebanon – because we had sons there."
