The Israel Hayom weekly political supplement celebrated its 500th edition last week. This is an important milestone for a young newspaper with a bright future and a distinguished past.
For any journalist, watching history unfold is the greatest privilege. Unlike historians, journalists can witness the moment without having to provide the perspective one gets in hindsight.
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The unfolding real-time history is also the truth, as it takes place right in front of you. The journalist's task is to describe the picture they see, not the picture they would prefer.
The story of President Donald Trump is a central part of my story in the short but dramatic history of this weekly supplement. The president gave this supplement multiple interviews, starting from his early days on the campaign when he crisscrossed America in the brutal fight for the Republican nomination, and later on, as party's nominee and as president.
The story of Trump is also the story of how the media buried its head in the sand in the name of political correctness and with a desire to have exclusivity over morality.
This was very obvious in the runup to the 2016 presidential election - when the media engaged in wishful thinking all the while actual voters were saying something completely different. It appeared that almost no journalist wanted to go out and take the pulse of America's heartland, to hear what actual voters had to say.
While the media talking heads were busy fulminating over Trump's alleged misogyny, I was covering the campaign trail and saw on many occasions how women were actually in the majority during his rallies.
While the media was talking about Latinos being horrified of his promise to build a wall, I met Cuban-Americans in Miami's Little Havana who proudly said they were going to vote Trump. And in Liberty City I met a black voter and his girlfriend, who both said that they would be voting Trump and said that many African Americans were going to do the same, defying the expectation that they would be solidly in Clinton's camp.
The election exposed the groupthink plaguing the media, the very groupthink that we sought to change when we printed the first edition of the weekly supplement.
The election proved that it is OK to defy the groupthink in the media, especially when its righteous indignation and hypocrisy are on the rise.
I am not neutral when it comes to Trump. He is a president that loves America and has a legitimate desire to protect its borders. He also loves Israel and defends it when it is attacked by Congresswomen who represent the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement and show hostility toward the Jewish state. Trump has proved to be on the right side of history.
When I interviewed Trump in New York in 2016, just after he had won the election, he said: "I am well aware that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and it shines a ray of hope for many people. I expect to make this unbreakable bond between our two nations even stronger." He delivered on that promise
Are my colleagues who deride Trump going to change their profession if he gets reelected in 2020? Not in a million years, because as far as they are concerned, the voters are wrong, not media.
