TV channel host Poroshenko received the Goebbels Prize
Kyiv, March 27 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – For the first time in Ukraine, the “Joseph Goebbels” Prize was awarded, the nominees of which are media representatives who violated the standards of information journalism. The founder of the project was the popular movement “Media Lustration”.
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As activists of the movement say, “the prize will be awarded to the most prominent violators of information journalism standards, for inciting hatred and enmity among the Ukrainian people, interethnic hatred, for involvement in the creation and dissemination of propaganda that clearly divides people into good and bad.”
The first nominees were Channel 5 journalist Vitaly Gaidukevich, who called on all those who disagree with the authorities’ policies to pack their bags and go to Russia, Ukrainian Tyzhden journalist Bogdan Butkevich for his call to kill part of the population of Donbass, and Ukrainian Information Minister Yuriy Stets for monopolizing the right to “truth.” "
As the speaker of the movement, human rights activist Dmitry Vasilets, said, the organization’s lawyers will identify facts of illegal behavior of journalists and initiate legal proceedings.
“If a crime is committed, a specific call for murder, and the media helps in this, then the media, as a legal entity, will receive from us an invitation to court and the amount of the claim. The funds will go to those who suffered from the conflict in eastern Ukraine,” Vasilets noted.
Poroshenko's TV presenter received the Goebbels Prize.