Israeli broadcasters justified marginalizing Mizrahi music by citing majority listener taste

Evidence

Israeli radio culture was virtually entirely European in orientation. Kol Yisrael was merely responding to its Ashkenazic listeners’ tastes; according to a 1951 listeners’ survey that drew on a pool that was 90 percent Ashkenazic, mizrahi music was at the bottom of the list of listening choices. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 705

Categorization

• QUESTION: A circular claim worth probing: taste surveys from an unrepresentative pool used to justify exclusion — is there a general pattern of ‘market demand’ being manufactured by sampling bias?