The major success the media in Israel have achieved is the stifling of the type of wide-open criticism the media is accorded in other western democratic countries.
Newspaper [Illustrative](photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Diego Grez)ByYISRAEL MEDAD, ELI POLLAK
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