DNYUZ/New York Times: ‘It’s State Propaganda’: Ukrainians Shun TV News as War Drags on
Since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the people of Ukraine have had access to a single source of television news — an all-day broadcast packed with footage of Ukrainian tanks blasting Russian positions, medics operating near the frontline and political leaders rallying support abroad.
The show, Telemarathon United News, has been a major tool of Ukraine’s information war, praised by the government officials who regularly appear on it for its role in countering Russian disinformation and maintaining morale.
“It’s a weapon,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said last January of the program, which is jointly produced and broadcast 24/7 by the country’s biggest television channels.
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WNU Editor: Getting unfiltered news on the war from the Ukrainian side is becoming next to impossible now. For example. The penalty to post a Russian drone/missile strike on social media now carries heavy prison terms, and everyone is keeping their opinions to themselves. I am surprised that the New York Times got some people to talk.
4 comments:
Welcome to the good old days of the Soviet Union.
News is a State Secret.
Negative facts are the work of defeatists and wreckers.
Criticism is the doing of revisionists and enemies of the People.
Yagoda, the Poison Dwarf Yezhov, and Iron Felix smile from the grave.
Next move? Round up the Kulaks.
WNU has Scott Ritter on his side.
Birds of a feather
cope and seethe about it ukronazi
2:46
gee skods, long vacation eh?
Good to see you back.
Scotty Ritter ain't such a bad guy. Been right more than the neocons you listened to.
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