Israel/Palestine

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:28 PM Jul 2015

Time Warner executive moonlights as speechwriter for Netanyahu

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/moonlights-speechwriter-netanyahu

One of Time Warner’s top executives moonlights as a speechwriter for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning the west about Iran.

Gary Ginsberg, executive vice president of corporate marketing and communications for Time Warner, advised Netanyahu to pull out the famous bomb cartoon at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 and helped craft such lines as the claim that Iran threatens Israel with “nuclear extinction.”

“When he’s in the United States, he’s a friend of mine, I help him,” Ginsberg told me today. Time Warner is “fully aware” of his unpaid work for the Israeli prime minister, he said, but the company has not disclosed his work to the public.

“No. Why would they do that?” he said. “I do this in my free time as a friend of the prime minister’s. I in no way get paid… This is my free time. This is not as a corporate executive, this is in my personal capacity.”

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Time Warner executive moonlights as speechwriter for Netanyahu (Original Post) R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2015 OP

Gotta love that media consolidation! arcane1 Jul 2015 #1

and yet we're told how the US media is 'biased' against Israel azurnoir Jul 2015 #2

Does Mondoweiss count as the US media? oberliner Jul 2015 #3

what channel is Weiss broadcast on, I ask because my TV provider doesn't seem to have him azurnoir Jul 2015 #4

None that I am aware of oberliner Jul 2015 #5

well there ya have it - Weiss is a niche blog, if you're not interested in I/P azurnoir Jul 2015 #6

So it was Gary Ginsberg who came up with the idea of the cartoon bomb. Little Tich Jul 2015 #7

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. Gotta love that media consolidation!

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:39 PM

Jul 2015

I'm sure Time Warner properties can be trusted to give us a pure, unbiased view of issues related to Israel and Iran.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

2. and yet we're told how the US media is 'biased' against Israel

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:59 PM

Jul 2015

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. Does Mondoweiss count as the US media?

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:17 PM

Jul 2015

Because they are definitely biased against Israel.

Generally speaking, though, Israel gets friendlier coverage in the US media than in any other media in the world, possibly including Israel.

The anti-Israel biases comes mainly from non-US sources.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

4. what channel is Weiss broadcast on, I ask because my TV provider doesn't seem to have him

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:26 PM

Jul 2015

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

5. None that I am aware of

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:43 PM

Jul 2015

So if by US media you don't mean Americans with websites that purport to be sources of news and information about Israel then I would say that the US media is definitely not biased against Israel and I would be surprised to find anyone who thought otherwise.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)

6. well there ya have it - Weiss is a niche blog, if you're not interested in I/P

Reply to oberliner (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:10 PM

Jul 2015

chances are you're not familiar with him, Time-Warner OtOH is another story

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

7. So it was Gary Ginsberg who came up with the idea of the cartoon bomb.

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 10:32 PM

Jul 2015

What a genius...

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