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From: Raymond Duray	11/27/2004 8:18:41 AM
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If only this could happen in America..... "We understand our responsibility for the biased news that the channel has so far been broadcasting under pressure." -Oleksander Rodnyansky, Director of One Plus One TV news.bbc.co.uk Ukraine state TV in revolt By Sebastian Usher BBC world media correspondent Ukraine journalists pledge impartiality Journalists on Ukraine's state-owned channel - which had previously given unswerving support to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - have joined the opposition, saying they have had enough of "telling the government's lies". Journalists on another strongly pro-government TV station have also promised an end to the bias in their reporting. The turnaround in news coverage, after years of toeing the government line, is a big setback for Mr Yanukovych. Journalists in Ukraine seem to have responded to the call by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko for them to reject government censorship. A correspondent on the state channel, UT1, announced live on the evening bulletin that the entire news team was going to join the protests in Independence Square. She said their message to the protesters was: "We are not lying anymore". Rebellion For the first time in years, the UT1 bulletin aired opposition views in a balanced way after the station's management acceded to the journalists' demands. It was the culmination of a rebellion among journalists at the state-run channel that had been brewing for days. <Continues....>

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