Israel's Educational TV channel gives viewers a lopsided leftist view and campaigned against Operation Cast Lead, according to an Israel Media Watch (IMW) research report. Responding to several complaints from viewers, the organization examined 17 programs in the Making Order series that were aired between December 12 and January 9, covering two weeks of the Operation Cast Lead war against Gaza terror.
Among 66 discussions and 98 interviews, 21 public and professional figures with a known leftist background appeared on Educational TV compared with only five people with nationalist views. Although many of the programs were balanced, IMW found several examples of gross imbalance without any debate and with a general bias favoring an early end to Operation Cast Lead.