Reply #17: Make this a new thread if you can ... from the Wall Street Journal

[StephanieMarie]

Front page article from the WSJ on Nov. 29 :
Interpreter for Deaf makes Her Protest Heard in Ukraine
On TV, Ms. Dmytruk Uses Sign Language to Call Election Coverage a "Lie"
By Yaroslav Trofimov
Kiev, Ukraine
Natalia Dmytruk, the sign-language interpreter at Ukraine's state TV channel, came to work Thursday morning fired up for action.
The channel's reporters, like their colleagues on the other two major national networks, were on strike. They were protesting government pressure to slant news coverage in favor of Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed candidate in this country's disputed presidentioal election.
State TV wasn't broadcasting demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, the pro-Western candidate who believews that the presidency was stolen from him through government-sponsored fraud. Mr. Yanukovych, the current prime minister, was presented on the news as the election's undisputed winner, receiving congratulations from Russian President Putin.
So Ms. Dmytruk, 47 years old, adopted guerrilla tactics to break the information blockade.
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...after interpreting the news broadcast for the deaf on Nov. 25, Ms. Dmytruk bared her wrist (showing an orange ribbon in support of Yushchenko) and said, "Everything you have heard so far on the news was a total lie. Yushchenko is our true president. Goodbye, you will probably never see me here again."


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Maybe we could entice her to come to CNN and do us the same favor?