Dramatic shift in coverage of "social protest movement": Yediot Ahronot - 24
June 2012 Front Page
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 24 June 2012

Yedioth Ahronot gave nonstop favorable coverage to the "social protest
movement" last summer.

Today's front page set a radically different view

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The text:

The Protest Lost Control - Thousands of Protestors rampaged last night in
Tel Aviv, broke into banks and blocked the Ayalon (highway) Photo caption:
Protestor breaks window of bank branch last night in Gan Hair (mall). To the
right: [protest leader] Daphne Leaf outside one of the banks [smoking
cigarette]

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Of course there is a radical difference between the summer of 2011 and the
summer of 2012.

In the case of the summer of 2011 the only other story available to the
press was the coming "tsunami" of the declaration of a Palestinian state at
the end of the summer.

Simply put, the "social protest" story sold newspapers.

What's on the plate at this very minute?

- Egypt in turmoil
- Syria beyond the brink
- Iranian nuke issue at a boiling point
- Terror from Gaza and Sinai
- Treatment of Illegal foreigners with dramatic activities (expulsion,
internment, etc.)
- European economies on the edge
- US recovery teetering
- American elections heating up

And that's without any surprises.

Yediot Ahronot doesn't need Daphne Leaf to sell papers this summer.

How will the sea change impact the protest?
How will it impact the determination of the authorities to enforce the
rights of the resident of Tel Aviv to clean streets and parks instead of the
open toilets that their upscale neighborhood was turned into in the summer
of 2011?