Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev has sent a letter to the top executives of ITN and CNN, Mark Wood and Richard Davis, expressing his indignation with the way Bulgaria was portrayed in a TV report supposed to present the country's condition during the recent gas shortage crisis.

Stanishev points out that he himself like millions of Bulgarians is outraged at the dull and stereotypical way in which the condition of the households in Bulgaria's city of Pleven has been presented in the ITN TV report, which also aired on CNN.

"There is no point in my embarking upon complex explanations about how many of the principles of journalism, professional and human ethics have been violated in this two-minute report, about what is allowed and not allowed in contemporary journalism. It is enough to point out that the few lines of your reporter contain three basic factual mistake, which together with the apparent seeking of sensationalism, turn this report into a pure lie. A lie for the British audience, and the wider international community", Stanishev's letter to the two TVs states.

In conclusion, the Bulgarian Prime Minister demands that the two TV channels find a way to fix the harm that they did to Bulgaria deliberately or not. He thinks that maybe they should send their reporters to Bulgaria again in order to cover the country objectively.

"The change in the way of covering Bulgaria would be news in itself", Stanishev points out.

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