In an Israel Hayom op-ed, veteran journalist Amir Peled delivers a scathing summary of the 2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasts on Kan, calling the tournament a 'useless' spectacle and criticizing the public broadcaster's coverage.
Amir Peled, a veteran journalist at Israel Hayom, published an op-ed on Tuesday offering a critical summary of the 2026 FIFA World Cup coverage on Kan, Israel's public broadcaster. The column, titled 'The 11th Strike: Summary of the World Cup on the Public Waste Corporation,' accuses the broadcaster of wasting resources on a tournament Peled deems 'useless.' The article is the latest in a series of Peled's critiques of the World Cup; The Zioneer previously reported on a similar column by Peled on July 16, in which he argued the tournament was a 'useless' spectacle that even Kan was embarrassed to cover. The current piece reprises those themes, focusing on the broadcaster's perceived mismanagement of public funds during the event.
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