26 November 2004 - Friday

The press revolts

BBC Monitoring has noticed something interesting in Ukraine:

A correspondent on the state channel, UT1, announced live on the evening bulletin that the entire news team was going to join the protests in Independence Square. She said their message to the protesters was: "We are not lying anymore".
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The news staff at UT1 were not alone. A couple of hours earlier, journalists on the pro-government private channel One Plus One took a similar stand.

The station had announced earlier in the day the resignation of its news editor, who had been presenting a fiercely pro-government election special for the past three days, after journalists refused to produce news bulletins in protest at censorship of the opposition.

| Posted by Wilson at 23:59 Central | TrackBack
| Report submitted to the Power Desk

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