State-backed broadcast has strategic and practical justifications but some see it as dangerous monopoly
Photograph: Bernat Armangué/APPhotograph: Bernat Armangué/APn an age of social media and satellite television, the singular wartime news bulletin evokes images of families tuning in to the radio during the second world war. But inShortly after Russia invaded, the country’s main TV channels started broadcasting the same content 24 hours a day, nicknamed the United News telemarathon. Each channel has a daily slot on the broadcast, which is shown simultaneously on all the channels.
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