Petro Poroshenko has just stepped on his western supporters’ narrative of a glorious, free and happy post-Maidan Ukraine, by rather embarrassingly banning a whole slew of people from setting foot in his country – including “at least three” BBC employees. Nobody seems to know why. Either because they are a “threat to national interests” or because they are helping the “terrorists.” The list is vague.
Andrew Roy, the BBC’s foreign editor, said “This is a shameful attack on media freedom,” but the BBC website is burying the story of their own journalists being banned inside another item about how the rebel elections are a “threat to peace.”
The Guardian reports the story but does its best with its headline to give the impression there’s some sanity behind it all…
And just can’t bring itself to condemn even this flagrant attack on journalistic freedom. After all, more than many other MSM…
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Susanna Panevin 