How media outlets work during war

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Journalism and propaganda are different things. Propaganda tries at all price to sell this or that product or idea to the readers, audience, users, very often not refraining from cheating or humiliating its opponents. Journalism presents facts and opinions the way they are given by the initial sources.

Another question-during the time, when the soldiers of your country fight and die in the battlefield for your homeland, should we use the sources of the adversary? During this 4-day war the Armenian media outlets mainly haven’t acted like that. Of course, there are minor exceptions, which, more likely, are conditioned by solving inner political problems.

Approximately in that way all the media outlets around the world work during war. It is another question what the war means. For example, a year ago there was a war between Ukraine and Russia over Donbass and Lugansk, to call it as it is, information war was also very natural. But the fight between the media outlets, as it turns out, didn’t start at that time and didn’t end after it.

The guest is Ukrainian journalist Natalia Gamenyuk.

 

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