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The presenter did not interrupt, but instead supported the listener’s statements on the air. The Journalistic Ethics Commission condemned him.
The former candidate for mayor of Kiev, presenter Sergei Pritula became involved in an anti-Semitic scandal during the broadcast of his program “In the middle of the week” on Radio NV. This was announced on Thursday, November 12, by the telegram channel of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine.
“A certain Roman from Kramatorsk called the air, who called the celebration of the Jewish New Year in Uman a” Saturday “, and called Tzaddik Nakhman” Natsik hatsman. “Pritula not only did not inform the audience about the inadmissibility of wearing the radio as a spokesman for anti-Semitic statements, but vice versa, He entered into a friendly conversation with the listener and said with a pleasant smile that he “fully shares his emotional outrage” and “terribly happy to hear him on the air with such good humor”, says the message .
The presenter’s behavior was condemned by the Journalistic Ethics Commission.
“The Commission sees in the aforementioned case a violation of clause 15 of the Code of Ethics of the Ukrainian Journalist … The Commission takes into account Serhiy Prytula’s significant experience in conducting live broadcasts and cannot evaluate his actions as unconscious or as caused by confusion due to the new situation. Given the public resonance, which caused this case, the level of coverage of the radio audience, the profound level of insults and the possible consequences of the incident in the form of further incitement to inter-ethnic hatred, the Commission announces a public condemnation of the presenter of the live broadcast Sergei Pritula and Radio NV, “says the KJE decision.
We will recall, in September, that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attacks on Hasidim in Uman, adding that he had not encountered anti-Semitic statements during his election campaign.
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