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