В.Путин.Выступление.25.11.02.Part 2
November 25, 2002
The Kremlin, Moscow
Выступление на встрече с представителями средств массовой информации и депутатами Государственной Думы
25 ноября 2002 года
Москва, Кремль
That is why it is so important to find a balance between the restrictions connected with the conduct of a specific special operation at a concrete time and in a concrete place in order to rescue people and secure the interests of the state, on the one hand, and keeping society properly informed about the actions of the state on the other so that the state does not come to regard itself as infallible.I hope to hear from you about every aspect of modernising the media laws and not just about regulating media work in extreme situations. Finally, I believe that the media community, as you write in your appeal, would do well to work out its own corporate norms of behaviour in extreme situations. I am convinced that if the authorities and the media community meet each other half-way, they will be able to find the golden mean, the balance I referred to earlier. That is all I wanted to say by way of opening the discussion.Brief intervention during the discussion
I dont think you should waste your time persuading me to veto these laws. I have already done so. Before this meeting I signed two letters to both houses addressed to [Speaker of the Federation Council] Mironov and [Speaker of the State Duma] Seleznyov. I ask the heads of the two chambers to set up a conciliation commission and agree the texts with the media representatives. At the same time, I would like to draw your attention to what you said about some improprieties in the activities of the law enforcement bodies. I agree with these remarks. As regards the law enforcement bodies, we will have a separate discussion and a review of all the aspects, although I must say that on previous occasions we lost more hostages. We lost more than 170 hostages and let all the militants escape in Budyonnovsk. And that created conditions for them to come back.But today we are not discussing the law enforcement bodies, the point at issue is how to best organise the work of the media without restricting media freedom and citizens access to information. You said that you would like to know who heads up the headquarters, and how its activities are regulated and so on. I would like to remind all those present that the law on combating terrorism has everything and in the event, in spite of some slip-ups in the work of the law enforcement bodies which cannot be denied the location of the headquarters and who was its head were known. The headquarters made known to the media its requirements under the law. The example I have cited shows that some members of your profession knowingly violated these rules, ignored the law and put the lives of many people in danger. They did so in order to boost their rating, their capitalisation and ultimately to earn more money.
By the way, that is inadmissible in the frame of reference of your profession because it involves the use of special privileges to gain an edge on the competition. That is what you have said.
And secondly, we should have a clear idea of the role and the meaning of the activities of the mass media and who should be doing what in our country. When I hear some of our colleagues say: our actions have saved five lives, six lives that is not right. Special services should save people and the mass media should inform society about the events, the activities of the government bodies without any embellishments and honestly present the information and report the truth.The state should not get the idea that it is infallible in its actions. In this, the media have the key role to play. What to do about the laws that have already been passed and that are often broken both by the state and by all the other parties involved in the process? The topic we are discussing is extremely important and acute for any country, but especially for our country.
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