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Maintaining balance and impartiality in conflicts
Listeners react to the coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine. Â鶹Éç World Service English controller Jon Zilkha responds to listeners’ comments and questions.
We look at the coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine. The controller of Â鶹Éç World Service English Jon Zilkha joins us in the studio to respond to listeners’ comments and questions. How do you maintain "balance" and impartiality in reporting armed conflicts? Is it the Â鶹Éç’s role to actively counter disinformation from Russia? Is there a risk the media might end up demonising ordinary Russians?
Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
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Sun 6 Mar 2022
23:50GMT
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