NewsNews28 February 2019

1+1 Media's response to the BPP's statement regarding journalistic standards on the 1+1 channel

For today's broadcast of the socio-political talk show "Right to Power" from February 28, we invite only candidates for the presidency of Ukraine, as well as experts in the stated topic. The dialogue regarding the invitation of Petro Poroshenko to the broadcast of the program between his team and the editors of the program has been going on for several weeks, however, recently we received a proposal from his party to invite the head of the BPP faction, Artur Gerasimov, to the broadcast instead of the current president. Apparently, the president personally instructed him to present his position on the air of the "1+1" channel.

We are amazed that the president should be represented by someone. We emphasize once again that it is the presidential candidates who are invited to the "Right to Power" broadcast. If Petro Poroshenko believes that Artur Gerasimov should take part in the March 31 elections instead of him, please let us know. In this case, we will be glad to see him in the talk show studio.

They make a bad impression   attempts by the president and his party to influence the editorial policy of the channel. We would not like to regard as one of them today's "rally" near the head office of "1+1 Media" with paid participants, the "customer" of which the activists called the current president Petro Poroshenko.

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