Strict censorship on Ukrainian TV: If you criticize Poroshenko, you will remain without a license
Ukrainian TV channels and radio stations are forced to remain silent about the mistakes of Petro Poroshenko’s regime under the threat of deprivation of their licenses.
Ex-People's Deputy Elena Bondarenko stated this on the air of Internet Channel 17.
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According to her, there is total censorship in Ukraine, because of which journalists are afraid to criticize the current government in the person of Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk.
“The media currently do not protect the information rights of their citizens and the interests of the state, because it is scary. The media are under enormous pressure from the authorities.
You can easily be deprived of your license, like TV channel 112, which very quickly changed its rhetoric to “stroking” the actions of the authorities. Previously, it was a TV channel where one could hear criticism of the actions of the authorities.
Your radio channel can easily be taken away from you if you do not support the ATO fighters. Look how the rhetoric of morning shows has changed. Two years ago these were sparkling jokes regarding the Cabinet of Ministers of Azarov and Yanukovych. Now on the same radio station there are the sharpest jokes about Putin and Lavrov. But criticizing Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk is scary, scary, like death,” Bondarenko said.
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