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This is a Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report (JPRS-UPA-90-053) dated 1 May 1990. It contains a translation of an article by Lev Tsvetkov, chief specialist in the USSR Council of Ministers Information Department, from the Moscow journal ZHURNALIST. Tsvetkov criticizes one-sided Soviet press coverage of price increases and trade union protests. He urges journalists to cover the move to market relations within the context of the government's economic recovery program. It mentions a UFO only in passing.
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## Document 6 of 8 the year.' This is the kind of ''democracy'' proposed through the press by those who had voted against the program. 37. Those who wanted the program to be adopted by the Congress only for information, also remained at their previous positions. This position was formulated in all its nakedness in the magazine KROKODIL (No 3, "'Zanimatsya svoim delom'" [Mind Your Own Business by Deputy A. Sobchak, who himself, it is true, did not vote all that logically in my opinion--both for adopting the program "'for information,' and for declining it: "'Today the Premier is trying to share his responsibility with us, so that tomorrow we would not be able to say, 'the Government's program has failed; it has not fulfilled its functions--it should be retired.'" Here the key word is "'responsibility.'" Many people do not want it thrust upon their shoulders at all. And they did not shoulder it. In spite of the resolution of the Congress. 38. In their public pronouncements, a third of the deputies--those who voted to support the program--stressed over and over the difficulty of implementing it. And one would have to look through a very powerful magnifying glass in order to find how these difficulties are overcome in real life. In my opinion, the fog is spreading, and not without our journalistic 'assistance.' 39. Whether our concern with the economic crisis is genuine or for show is relatively easy to determine today: by the orientation of the printed word. Such as, that which is in most cases characteristic of IZVESTIYA. It was this very newspaper that declared at the beginning of the year: Enough arguing; let us do our business, independent of the ''leftists'' and ''rightists.'" Such a note was fleetingly glimpsed in the articles of certain other newspapers, but soon faded away. But IZVESTIYA continued to follow that line, issue after issue. 40. Many readers probably noticed the page in the newspaper of 21 January, which was almost completely devoted to two letters: one from the general director of the Korvet Association in Kurgan, and another in response, from USSR Council of Ministers Deputy Chairman L. Abalkin. The authors ''ran their fingers over'' all the most urgent problems of the contemporary stage of economic changes--and one can imagine how many works were referenced in order for the articles to coincide; so that they would be free of ''trivialities''; and so that not a single truly major question would be left without a well-argued response. 41. Were this a one-time publication, perhaps it would not have been mentioned. But the fact of the matter is, that from the first days of the new year, IZVESTIYA began to report on every step being taken at the central organs for implementing the economic recovery program,
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