Sunday, November 28, 2004

YeshaNews: No to Arabic-speakers

YeshaNews offered news photos free of charge to Ynet, Israel's most popular Hebrew-langauge news website, but on one condition - that the photos not appear on the Arabic-language version of Ynet.

According to a senior Ynet employee who told of the offer during the course of a staff meeting Sunday, the only stipulation Yesha News made for the free photos - in addition that they not appear on Arab Ynet - was that the name of the settler news organization appear in the credit.

The employee did not specify when YeshaNews made the offer.

The offer would have been tempting because settlers from the news organization, armed (pun intended) with digital cameras, would likely get to events before photographers from outside the territories.

Ynet refused the offer, the employee said.

(For a good laugh, read the About Us page on the YeshaNews website.)