Sunday, August 22, 2004
Tabloid Journalism - the Cipel Poet-Sailor Label
Had also noted this, who started the Poet/Sailor labeling of Cipel? And why did practically everyone who calls themselves a professional journalist wgo along with it?
Cipel is a poet because he wrote some poems when he was 16 (!!) and started referring to the Israeli Navy veteran as a sailor.
So he may be a homo, but still, that was some yellow labeling, given his career, however troubled it seems to be.
- The Poet-Sailor - Posted by Ami Eden
The bulk of Golan Cipel’s professional career has been spent in public relations. He spent several years as a public information officer at the Israeli Consulate in New York and worked several other similar jobs. So you’d think the media would describe him as public-relations guy. But, instead, like a bunch of school children, journalists were quick to play up the notion that
Cipel is a poet because he wrote some poems when he was 16 (!!) and started referring to the Israeli Navy veteran as a sailor.
So he may be a homo, but still, that was some yellow labeling, given his career, however troubled it seems to be.
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