The "Chronicle of bad future" (which was in air over TV Imedi and was an imitation, but not real facts) contained a real danger for the country. Moreover it was a great pressure on the psychological condition of the people who undergo the August war, and in no event could be counted as a backing for the consolidation of a nation and for the security of the country.
Authors of the "Chronicle" were obliged to take into account a reaction which would follow this imitation. They were obliged to make captions of corresponding context. I believe that such "scenario'" was improper for declarations concerning a head of the country and head of the execution authority as if - "their location is unknown presently". As well declarations about the evacuation of the governmental establishments. It was inappropriate to mention in the imitation the treason of the army.
The people who took part in this imitation should consider, that its explanations before the Georgian public, after this shocking TV program were useless. They should make a deduction not under the possible events in Georgia after possible imagined scenario, but they should take into account that it is inappropriate to exploit names of leaders of opposition , head of the country, other countries leaders for the several minutes popularity of the TV program and spread of a panic among population
The TV programs of such type discredit the government instead of the consolidation of a society. In such case, the government appears as a feeble and impotent one, and such action, considering the dangers before the country, is inacceptable. It would be better if authors of the TV program (who were enjoyed of own "creative work") would think about homeless people and its feelings, and turn its cameras into the streets of Tbilisi, Gori, Senaki and Tserovani.
The task of a media is to avoid dangers but not to provoke them, and surely not to spread the real but not imitated panic.
At the same time I am for the freedom of expression, the freedom of journalistic choice, freedom of creative work, but the TV program was not an ethic one.
Gocha Mirtskhulava
Director General of information agency GHN