From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. For two weeks, the world has watched as Ukrainians poured into Kiev's streets to protest the awarding of the recent presidential election to Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych.

But for days, Ukrainian TV had offered nary a glimpse of the so-called Orange Revolution.

Most of Ukraine's major TV channels complied with

government edicts on how to cover the news, and that meant ignoring the demonstrations

in support of Viktor Yushenko, the opposition candidate who alleged widespread vote rigging. After

years of state censorship, the crippled election coverage drove a handful of TV journalists to quit.

Last week, the few became the many. Dozens walked off the job to join the protests,

and hundreds signed a petition demanding the right to report what they saw. At one point,

a sign language interpreter on the state-owned channel UT1 went off script

and signed on live TV that she would no longer lie for the government. Finally, on Thursday,

the media owners capitulated and broadcast images of the protests. Many reporters returned to

work, many, but not Fadir Sudurok, a reporter at the channel called

1 Plus 1. In October, he and six of his colleagues were the very first to resign, but they

haven't been welcomed back. He joins me now on the line from Kiev. Welcome to OTM. Well, thank you.

So how is the news on 1 Plus 1 different than it was, say, before last week?

The main thing is that the people are getting fair and objective news.

I think it's totally different.

Talk to me about the rest of Ukraine's media right now.

There's a mutiny of sorts at UT1, the state-owned channel.

Yes, there is a mutiny, but there is still a strong system of censorship there,

because the chief editor and the editors there are still under control from the president's

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