Media is a very big deal in Ukraine. Do the media organization not remember the anger exhibited at radio and television stations regarding material considered to be propaganda?
New York, July 23, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists (click here) condemns a series of recent anti-press violations in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk. In the past two days, at least two journalists have gone missing, while pro-Russia separatists abducted a fixer and briefly detained a reporter, according to news reports and press freedom and human rights groups. The moves come as the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic today banned journalists from the conflict area....
...On Tuesday, armed separatists in Donetsk stormed a room in a local hotel and abducted Anton Skiba, who was assisting a CNN film crew, according to news reports and the Vienna-based human rights watchdog Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Skiba's whereabouts are unknown, reports said....
Propaganda is a mainstay of right wing politics and I don't care if it is East or West, propaganda is paramount to elections for power. Lies. Lies are what right wing politicians use to sustain their presence among voters, then anyone wonders why so many Americans are stricken with 'beliefs' rather than 'facts' when it comes time for elections.
From the earliest days at Maidan the media has been a focus of control. There have been stations raided and anchors put out to the street and out of work. Then in retaliation for eliminating the propagandists, the separatists began kidnapping journalists right off the street. Now, they are raiding hotel rooms to conduct their oppression of the media.
Stay out of eastern Ukraine unless with a proper United Nations group to report their progress at the crash site. The crash site has become a place where 'neutral' territory exists and rightfully so. It is becoming a place where Ukrainians living in the area have paid tribute to the dead in their own ceremonial crosses and expressions of grief. The ONLY place any journalist belongs is in neutral areas or in stable areas of Ukraine.
Kidnapping journalists has become a focus of control by the separatists. The journalists, friend or foe, need to respect their opinion about the coverage they receive. This is a delicate set of circumstances for that country and media should not be compromising the Ukraine government in any of its actions to secure the country and it's borders.
Where has this happened before?
When journalists are not embedded with military units they die. We lost wonderful and brave journalists in Libya when they believed they could figure it out for themselves. Well, they couldn't and any journalist that BELIEVES they are untouchable for the sacrifices they make to bring the information to the citizens of countries lives in a fantasy they have created. I don't want more kidnappings and more killings. The journalist brain trust of this world is important.
No more!
The separatists should release the journalists at the point where they can return to Ukraine out of the combat zone and warn them not to return again.
New York, July 23, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists (click here) condemns a series of recent anti-press violations in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk. In the past two days, at least two journalists have gone missing, while pro-Russia separatists abducted a fixer and briefly detained a reporter, according to news reports and press freedom and human rights groups. The moves come as the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic today banned journalists from the conflict area....
...On Tuesday, armed separatists in Donetsk stormed a room in a local hotel and abducted Anton Skiba, who was assisting a CNN film crew, according to news reports and the Vienna-based human rights watchdog Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Skiba's whereabouts are unknown, reports said....
Propaganda is a mainstay of right wing politics and I don't care if it is East or West, propaganda is paramount to elections for power. Lies. Lies are what right wing politicians use to sustain their presence among voters, then anyone wonders why so many Americans are stricken with 'beliefs' rather than 'facts' when it comes time for elections.
From the earliest days at Maidan the media has been a focus of control. There have been stations raided and anchors put out to the street and out of work. Then in retaliation for eliminating the propagandists, the separatists began kidnapping journalists right off the street. Now, they are raiding hotel rooms to conduct their oppression of the media.
Stay out of eastern Ukraine unless with a proper United Nations group to report their progress at the crash site. The crash site has become a place where 'neutral' territory exists and rightfully so. It is becoming a place where Ukrainians living in the area have paid tribute to the dead in their own ceremonial crosses and expressions of grief. The ONLY place any journalist belongs is in neutral areas or in stable areas of Ukraine.
Kidnapping journalists has become a focus of control by the separatists. The journalists, friend or foe, need to respect their opinion about the coverage they receive. This is a delicate set of circumstances for that country and media should not be compromising the Ukraine government in any of its actions to secure the country and it's borders.
Where has this happened before?
When journalists are not embedded with military units they die. We lost wonderful and brave journalists in Libya when they believed they could figure it out for themselves. Well, they couldn't and any journalist that BELIEVES they are untouchable for the sacrifices they make to bring the information to the citizens of countries lives in a fantasy they have created. I don't want more kidnappings and more killings. The journalist brain trust of this world is important.
No more!
The separatists should release the journalists at the point where they can return to Ukraine out of the combat zone and warn them not to return again.
