Discussion on Media Control and Politics

Do you think they're capable of all this?

Of course. There are,

uh, there are, uh,

uh, a great writer named

George Orwell, and he wrote about it— in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in his

amazing book, he wrote about how, in a country that has

complete control over the media, they bring the public

every day into a large auditorium, a large

screening room, and show them films about an enemy of

the state. And what do they tell them there?

Hate, hate, hate, hate. That is,

to hate, to hate, to hate, to hate.

But still, you've been prime minister here the longest.

You've really faded.

Right, fine, okay. It depends what you see, what— what you look at.

I'm glad there are people who either,

uh, who aren't influenced. I have to tell you, back in '99,

when I lost the election, there was no

Channel 14, there was no i24, there was no Galei

Israel. Look—