What the Rossiya TV channel showed to the Russian audience, The Times called a counterfeit.
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Newspaper Fails to Recognize Itself on TV
// The Times accused the Rossiya TV channel of counterfeiting its front page
London newspaper The Times said on Wednesday that its front page shown by the Rossiya TV channel’s news program on July 30th, allegedly containing criticism of exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, was counterfeited. The TV channel said the newspaper’s claims are groundless, because the text of any publication shown in Rossiya’s news programs always looks like a front page.
The Times expressed indignation over the Rossiya TV channel’s news program on Monday evening, in which newscaster Mikhail Antonov spoke about the Russian Prosecution’s new claims to exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who lives in Great Britain as a political emigrant.
Antonov mentioned the article criticizing Berezovsky published by The Times that same day. Rossiya also showed the newspaper’s front page with the tycoon’s picture and the headline “Berezovsky manipulates us, and we are in an embarrassing situation.”
The Times responded to the news program by an official comment. “The front page of The Times, the way it was shown by the Rossiya channel, is counterfeited. The article and headline displayed in the news program is not the front page. It is a comment of one of our columnists, published inside the newspaper on July 30th. It is neither a front page nor a news article. It is a personal comment. The picture shown by Rossiya gives an absolutely wrong idea of the front page of The Times.”
The Russian TV channel said in response that it always displays cited publications this way, making it look like a front page, because that is the standard of its computer-made layout. The channel said the British newspaper’s claims are groundless.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 02, 2007
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