Hareidi Jews are portrayed very poorly on Israeli television, a survey of TV viewers found. Among the largely secular viewers of the nightly 8PM news broadcasts on Channels 2 and 10, some 50% said that hareidim got the rawest break in the media – far more than any other.
Among the offenses of the media against hareidim: Portraying them as “religious fanatics” who are unwilling to acknowledge the legitimacy of other Jews as faithful to their religion, portrayals of hareidim as rock throwing anti-modernists, and an image of hareidim as disloyal to the state and its laws.
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