{"id":1304868,"date":"2025-10-11T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/knockout-television-how-telethon-is-destroying-professional-journalism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:07:49","slug":"knockout-television-how-telethon-is-destroying-professional-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/knockout-television-how-telethon-is-destroying-professional-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Telethon Knockout: How State TV Is Beating Real Journalism to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

The majority of Ukrainians now get their news from social media \u2014 a battlefield where truth bleeds daily. Telegram channels, anonymous posts, and amateur YouTube pundits have replaced editors and ethics. What we call \u201cinformation\u201d today is often just noise \u2014 loud, addictive, and dangerously unaccountable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimately, we can improve content and try to protect people from anonymous sources and foreign propaganda. But that won\u2019t change the nature of social media \u2014 it will remain what it is. We\u2019ve found ourselves in a reality where professional journalism has become an appendix<\/em> to social networks rather than a genuine companion to people\u2019s daily information lives.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the tireless efforts of our \u201cbrilliant\u201d leadership, the role of television in Ukraine was dismantled far earlier than anywhere else in Europe. The creation of the so-called \u201cMarathon\u201d<\/em> became nothing less than a knockout blow<\/strong> to Ukrainian television. And believe me, we won\u2019t recover from it. Even when life returns to something resembling normal, and the idea of merging oligarch-owned TV channels into a single propaganda stream finally collapses, public trust in television will never return.<\/p>\n\t\t