I write just after leaving Kiev after being alerted that a Ukrainian colleague – Denis Kazansky – instigated an online campaign that spiraled from him blaming Ukrainian intelligence for letting me into his country to people calling for me to be killed.
And by the way, I was in Ukraine to report on the wildfires that were sweeping through the area around Chernobyl – and nothing even remotely political.
I write this with a heavy heart. When did we, the journalists, become the story? When was the line crossed that it’s okay for a journalist to instigate a hate campaign against a colleague?
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