Model Trashes Israeli-Based Vocativ for Not Covering Gaza Battle
On Sunday evening Israeli-American model and television presenter Becky Griffin tweeted up a storm criticizing upstart news outlet Vocativ for its lack of Gaza battle coverage despite being a company owned by an Israeli mogul.
The Celebrate Israel host has long been critical of the Mati Kochavi-founded web outlet, which has boasted about its “deep-web” mining capabilities to find untold stories, via web chatter, about fascinating international issues.
Seeing no Israel stories on Vocativ’s front page this weekend, Griffin unleashed a torrent of tweets at the Vocativ founder’s daughter, Adi Kochavi — a writer and producer for the company — decrying the company’s non-coverage and mocking their actual accomplishments:
Psssst @adikochavi, why is there nothing about Israel and Gaza on daddy's site, @vocativ? Your "data ninjas" couldn't find it? @st_yoni
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
@adikochavi I know he was mad at the ridiculous "Gaza tunnels" story a while back, can't see him happy about the top stories on @vocativ
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
@adikochavi Top stories: pot smoking, nudist real estate, transgender soccer. Men's rights. That's deep web reporting? Lol @vocativ
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
@adikochavi Is that what Mati put 20 million dollars a year in? Tragic. No wonder y'all have zero traffic. @miricohen @thescottcohen
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
She looped in several other Israeli employees of Vocativ to express the same criticism:
@adikochavi It's an embarrassment to Israelis that you own/run a site like @vocativ. You miss every story. Zero news Cc @mk_mati @levy_rach
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
@adikochavi @vocativ @mk_mati @Levy_Rach Is that why @yuvalnathan has kept quiet about working for you? Too embarrassed of the product?
— Becky Griffin (@dorothyofisrael) July 14, 2014
UPDATE — 3:58 p.m. ET: While Vocativ articles on the Israel/Gaza conflict aren’t very prominent on the site’s homepage, they have this article up from shortly before we published Griffin’s tweets. There are also three other articles from between July 9 and today — none from over the weekend.
[Image via Becky Griffin/Twitter]
