Less and less coverage of important topics on the news
Regular monitoring carried out by “Telekritika” has found that in June there were three times as many infringements of journalist standards, with the main trend being that information is concealed.. .
During June, they report, there were 1,549 items that infringed standards of information journalism which could reflect their commissioned nature. This was against 487 the previous month.
Such infringements include NOT reporting information which the public has the right to know.
The most infringements on news broadcasts:
| 31.05 - 5.06 | 7-12.06 | 14-19.06 | 21-26.06 | разом |
«Inter» | 48 | 48 | 85 | 64 | 245 |
ICTV | 49 | 43 | 78 | 66 | 236 |
National TV 1 | 49 | 33 | 71 | 66 | 219 |
«1+1» | 39 | 37 | 77 | 45 | 198 |
Novy kanal | 35 | 28 | 70 | 51 | 184 |
«Ukraina | 27 | 24 | 65 | 43 | 159 |
STB | 32 | 18 | 61 | 45 | 156 |
Channel 5 | 30 | 24 | 58 | 40 | 152 |
total | 309 | 255 | 565 | 420 | 1549 |
Telekritika has been monitoring the news on 8 leading TV channels on a weekly basis for some time as part of an Internews Network “Y-Media” project aimed at monitoring journalist standards and increasing media literacy among the public.
From the report here http://telekritika.ua/news/2010-07-12/54321