Violent Maidan coup in Ukraine, 2014. (Wikipedia)
Consortium News: Suspended for Providing Balanced News on Ukraine
An editor at Radio New Zealand has been suspended and is under investigation for the time-honored practices of providing balanced and factual reporting, writes Tony Kevin.
On Friday The Guardian Australia website carried a news report, with a follow-up piece on Monday, whose implications for free speech are profoundly disturbing.
They concern a Radio New Zealand, or RNZ, broadcasting employee — unnamed, but everyone in the small New Zealand broadcasting world will soon know who it is — who has been placed on leave while their professional conduct is investigated. Obviously, a career hangs in the balance.
The malign ghosts of Orwell’s 1984 stalk this story.
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WNU Editor: Radio New Zealand is not the only news media outlet making the decision to provide news on the Ukraine war from only one side. I would say most Western news agencies have made the decision to ban any news from the Russian side on what is happening in the war. And while there are rare occasions when major US outlets do provide a glimpse on what is actually happening on the front-lines, that coverage is very rare and it is often obscured with other news breaking stories.
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the editor seems to forget or ignore the fact that major papers have concerns other than the Russian invasion of Ukraine to report on. Their obligation is not like this or a site that deals with wars. And any reader of at least 3 good US papers knows that the Russian version is presented as well as the Ukrainian position, it the propaganda and often the truth from both perspectives.
You are a purveyor of fake news.
You said
And any reader of at least 3 good US papers knows that the Russian version is presented as well as the Ukrainian position
I have yet to see that.
And that is like saying...any 3 good news papers gave us the real story on Afghanistan,
The Steele dossier, bengahzi or weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
You will say ...well they did...And you will be right but once again you would be twisting the truth.
The newspers did tell the real story...eventuality.
When they had to and only after 2 to 5 years.
If you think that you are truly getting both sides of the news you are either a liar or insane.
The kiwis are fascist. Just like California.
NZ is California west.
Duh what does russian side you are talking about? Is there any russian stupidity that we still don't know?
10:07
BULLSHIT
Just look at this blogs PICTURE OF THE DAY from Reuters and click on the link.
LOOK........ Staring you in the FING Face.
There is a slide show of 22 photos. All show either destroyed Russian equipment or dead Russians
Not one dead ukie. and maybe one destroyed ukie vehicle. That is fair and balanced?
The stories are also all like that. "Putins war of choice". "violent and unwarranted" Russian. "aggression."
Look at the words used in all these western stories. The adjectives and adverbs all paint a negative view of the Russian side.
There are no "unbiased" news stories anymore. It is all advocacy journalism and it all has a slant.
You are BULLSHIT
That's hilarious, more democratic than democracy
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