Presenter Of State ONT Channel Addressed To His Colleagues-Propagandists

• 22.06.2020, 9:32

Artsemis Akhpash has stated that "he and such television have different paths to follow".

I and such TV have different paths to follow. Artsemis Akhpash, presenter of the state ONT TV channel, addressed his colleagues, the Basta telegram channel reports.

"Colleagues, journalists, TV presenters and announcers, - he writes. - I want to appeal to you!

Whenever you tell a blatant lie about what is happening now from TV screens, how do you feel when you come home?

Do you really forget everything in your "service apartment"? Are you happy with everything?

For me, you are no better or even worse than those representatives of the "law enforcement agencies" who "pack" people in paddy wagons for nothing. And the people who are detained are not extremists, not terrorists, not armed bandits - they are the same Belarusians who just went out into the street to show by their presence their attitude to the events. We have no other way to express our feelings and opinions. Do you really agree to even breathe on orders?

I am glad that in all the 10 years of working on TV I have never been a propaganda tool. I was repeatedly offered to be a "news" presenter, but I refused every time.

I've always been closer to the genre of entertainment

And I am honest with my audience!

In my sanity, I am aware that after this appeal I will not be allowed access to TV.

But I and such TV have different paths to follow.

You all know Vladimir Posner. So he says that the worst thing he will never forgive himself is that in Soviet times he was an "instrument of state propaganda". ᅠ

Yesterday, at a time when the riot police was "packing up" the citizens who came out into the streets of Minsk, Brest, Mahiliou, Hrodna and Maladzechna, the ONT was showing the "100th anniversary of the Russian circus." What a double irony..."

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