The journalist who protested on Russian state TV says it was ‘impossible to stay silent’ – CNN March 16, 2022

I saw this recently on CNN – The journalist who protested on Russian state TV says it was ‘impossible to stay silent’: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/media/marina-ovsyannikova-amanpour/index.html/. Longer article.

By Charles Riley, CNN Business March 16, 2022

London (CNN Business) The Russian state television journalist who took a dramatic stand against President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during a live broadcast says it was “impossible to stay silent” and that she wants the world to know that many Russians are against the invasion.

Marina Ovsyannikova told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday that many Russian journalists see a disconnect between reality and what is presented on the country’s television channels, and that even her mother has been “brainwashed” by state propaganda.

“I have been feeling a cognitive dissonance, more and more, between my beliefs and what we say on air,” said Ovsyannikova. “The war was the point of no return, when it was simply impossible to stay silent.”

On Monday, the Channel One editor appeared behind a news anchor holding a sign that said: “NO WAR.” Ovsyannikova told CNN on Wednesday that she was compelled to act by memories of airstrikes during Russia’s conflict in Chechnya, where she lived as a young girl.

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