For many years, the Israeli media was controlled by an oligarchy of left-wing ideologues. All Israelis could listen to and watch was the preaching and analysis provided by the very people who were supposed to present objective and reliable information. But those people unwittingly blurred the line between opinion and news. Ultimately the opposition to the government was concentrated in the media, and the official opposition in the Knesset lost its importance and was no longer needed. The left-wing media talents would start their daily broadcasting routine at 6 a.m. and only go off the air at around midnight. During those hours, they would tell Israelis that everything is bad, that poverty levels have reached unimaginable proportions, and made sure to give the impression that tens of thousands of Israelis were living inside cardboard boxes on the streets of Tel Aviv because of a lack of affordable housing. They would also put the spotlight on single mothers and health hazards in Israel not because they wanted creative solutions but because they wanted to drive home the notion that moving to Berlin was the only solution. They would occasionally invite their own like-minded experts from academia to explain that without launching some peach initiative, the world will come to an end. They would also make sure to lay the blame for the stalled peace process squarely on Israel, the pariah state. Of course, this was all one big lie that was meant to bring the Left to power without an election. This is a new kind of democracy that is only found in Africa. Little by little, those media talents made sure their left-wing buddies joined the industry. Army Radio proved to be the most fertile recruitment ground because it served as the platform for criticizing the military. Sometimes those running the show in the media would appoint right-wing station chiefs, who would soon discover that they must fall in line with the ideology of others in the clique in order to keep their job, because the clique is essentially a group of like-minded left-wingers, and therefore it has no place for people who proudly wear their right-wing credentials or for religious people, Arabs, or those from less well-off communities (although there are some token recruits from those groups). For the sake of democracy, the publicly funded Israel Broadcasting Authority morphed into a bureaucratic behemoth. Its spending was out of control and billions of shekels lost. Mind you, these billions could have been used to solve the very problems plaguing Israeli society according to those broadcasters. On top of that, the programming offered by the IBA led to a collective yawn among viewers, and many simply stopped watching or listening. It became a white elephant that only catered to itself. Creating the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation to replace the IBA was the right -- and necessary -- decision. The hope was that this new entity would strike the right balance when it comes to politics and give a voice to everyone in Israeli society. But it soon turned out that this was a false hope. In the past several months, it became abundantly clear that Israelis were going to get more of the same, making us all wonder why this body was formed to begin with. If the IPBC continues to march along the same path, it will give the Left a bigger voice and use the incumbent right-wing government that created it as its stamp of approval. Free speech and pluralism are noble ideas that every citizen should enjoy, not just the Left's elite. The government should make sure they apply to everyone.