Ukrainian TV increases hatred, covering Donbass conflict, experts

Dec. 27^th./Donetsk/ Novorossia Today. Cases of hatred cultivation were fixed in talk shows on Ukrainian TV channels.

TV critics conducted monitoring of Ukrainian TV channels in margins of the OSCE projects at support of Great Britain Council in Ukraine, Radio Freedom reports.

The portal proved the emotionally –conflict covering of problems in social networks that has attitude to Donbass conflict.

It is said in the research that there are different types of barriers in the center of attention in talk shows on the central Ukrainian TV channels.  For instance, there are trans-regional, inter-ethnic barriers, and there are no ways for their solution.

‘Ukrainian channels make heroes from ATO fighters, and they make devils of the DPR, LPR and Russia soldiers. They conceal problems of refugees and they hardly mention volunteers. We hear often words of hatred in talk shows’; it is said in the research.

Experts announce that it such way of covering news, it is divided by good and bad people. ‘Cases of hatred cultivation are revealed in talk shows of the central TV channels of Ukraine to another part, including civilians’, it is said in the text.

‘Journalists try to focus attention on “positive life aspects” of “new life”, however, regional news showed several times refugees in such way, they showed civilians from Donbass as isolated and passive group that has regular problems with integration into new society, and they formed negotive steriotype for them’, it is said in the monitoring.

«It would be necessary to point out that this information was provided by different resources, including Ukrainian Internet portal correspondent.net. And this information proves once again that the authority of Ukrainian government in eyes of Ukrainian population, fighters of ATO and even representatives of Mass Media falls with intensive dynamics’,
Journalist of Novorossia Today, Nataliya Sinyavskaya

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Translated by Nataliya Sinyavskaya