Ayelet Shaked says media criticism does not affect her work

Veteran journalist and news anchor Ayelet Hasson of Kan 11 said in a candid interview that personal and professional attacks from colleagues in the media have not changed her agenda or reporting line. In a conversation with Mati Tuchfeld on Galey Israel radio, she said she sees a deliberate effort by some people to influence her journalism through insults and smears, but insists it has not worked.

Hasson said, “They tried to tame me with insults,” and added, “Everything is according to the shamer and the shamed.” She explained that when criticism comes from someone she considers to have stature, she listens willingly, but if it comes from “someone who is being used by a journalist or a newspaper editor, I do not count him.”

She stressed that her indifference is not a sign of numbness or detachment, but a conscious decision about what matters in her public role. “It’s not because I have thick skin, it’s because they are simply not important to me,” she said.

Hasson said the real measure of success in journalism, in her view, is whether she helped someone at a meaningful moment. “It is much more important to me to know whether I extended a hand to someone at a significant moment,” she said, adding that whether someone in the media writes about her “this way or that” simply does not matter.