UA

2006

10 min

Finished

Freedom of "jeans"? Ukrainian Context…

Directing: Ihor Chayka

Synopsis

"Everything is for sale!": this was a slogan concluding the election campaign-2006 for the most of the media outlets in Ukraine. The number of stories which have been ordered (so called "jeans stories") in newspapers and on the air of TV channels, and especially which have been supposed to be the journalistic (editorial) materials, was unexampled one. As to the opinion of several experts, the legislative election in 2006 got the most jeans one in all Ukrainian history. Well-known Ukrainian journalists and media experts speak in the film about the dangers of the situation that occurred in the majority of Ukrainian media due to the fact the temnyks censorship has been substituted with the jeans censorship, and among them are: Lilia Budjurova and Volodymir Prytula, Viktoria Sumar and Zurab Alazania, Tetyana Lebedeva and Valeriy Ivanov, Tetyana Katyuzhynska and Ihor Lubchenko.