But readers should not conclude that this makes us an opposition newspaper.
The Kyiv Post will never be an opposition newspaper. It’s not what our publisher, our journalists and, most importantly, it’s not what our readers want
The Kyiv Post will never be an opposition newspaper. It’s not what our publisher, our journalists and, most importantly, it’s not what our readers want."
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We cultivate contacts and value our working relationships with the administration and recognize its members are running the nation.
We quote their views in news stories.
We believe in the marketplace of ideas, so we routinely publish opinions we disagree with, such as the ones published by pro-presidential lawmakers Leonid Kozhara and Oleksandr Feldman.
But journalism should be about telling it like it is – fairly on the news pages; honestly on the opinion pages.
Unfortunately, we are finding that Ukrainian news agencies that we subscribe to, such as Interfax-Ukraine, are selectively offering mainly pro-administration information.
We are also dismayed that, rather than lead as democrats, the Yanukovych administration is responding to criticism by hiring PR spin doctors to pump out pro-presidential propaganda often devoid of logic and facts."
We are also dismayed that, rather than lead as democrats, the Yanukovych administration is responding to criticism by hiring PR spin doctors to pump out pro-presidential propaganda often devoid of logic and facts.
Andrew Rettman of the EU Observer in his opinion details how the Yanukovych administration – stung by criticism – has set out to hire PR firms to peddle its side of the story.
This flurry of English-language opinion pieces is coming ahead of the Nov. 22 Ukraine-European Union summit in Brussels, Belgium, during which important free-trade and visa-free travel agreements are at stake for Ukrainians.
These come on top of a daily bombardment on Ukrainian news stations of sycophantic journalists whose reports are eerily similar to the pro-Kremlin mouthpieces that many journalists have become in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Such poppycock just makes more work for honest, independent journalists everywhere who are trying their best to give people the true picture of what is happening.
