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ANEM WEEKLY MEDIA UPDATESEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
BELGRADE, September 10, 2001 Serbian deputy prime minister Zarko Korac responded to questions from Belgrade daily Danas about the annulment of the Radio Television of Serbia competition to appoint an editor-in-chief for the state-run media house's news programmes by saying: “I was deeply hit by the hypocrisy in that case. A group of people from Democratic Party of Serbia openly expressed their disagreement with the choice of Gordana Susa for that position, and afterwards they publicly denied that they had said that. Therefore, the Democratic Party of Serbia was really against the choice of Gordana Susa for the position of editor-in-chief of the News Programmes. I think that the proposal should have been put for open discussion, but I cannot accuse the Board of Directors, because they hadn’t had an easy time either. We do not have any reason for fear, those are all honourable people, Gordana Susa will submit her application for the competition again and there will be another chance for them to express their opinions. Only then shall we get the right decision, and we shall know which is the candidate that has the support of the Board of Directors of Radio Television of Serbia."
BELGRADE, September 11, 2001 The Workgroup for Protection of Journalists called on government officials yesterday to stop holding media or journalists responsible for problems in Yugoslavia. Weekly Nedeljni telegraf editor-in-chief Momcilo Djorgovic told the Workgroup he felt insecure after Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica had called certain media organisations anti-Yugoslav oriented. “Djorgovic maintains that, under the present circumstances in the country, statements of that kind could also be a springboard for possible physical assaults against him, especially because he also received threats by the Head of the Yugoslav Army Headquarters, Nebojsa Pavkovic, last spring,” the Workgroup for the Protection of Journalists said in their official statement.
BELGRADE, September 13, 2001 The trial against Dragoljub Milanovic, the former general director of Radio Television of Serbia, in front of the Second Municipal Court in Belgrade will start Wednesday. Milanovic is charged with responsibility for the deaths 16 Radio Television of Serbia employess during the NATO air raid and with embezzlement, Belgrade-based daily Danas reported. The attorney of the families of the killed Radio Television of Serbia employees, Slobodan Sisic suggested the court will split the criminal procedure against Milanovic Wednesday into two separate trials, one trial for charges of endangering public safety and the other for his financial crimes.
BELGRADE, September 13, 2001 The Independent Alliance of Serbian Journalists representative in the executive Board of Radio Television of Serbia, Branka Prpa, resigned her position in the Executive Board because she thinks that the new general director and certain parties within DOS were unfairly minimising the executive board's role. In her letter to the Serbian government vice president Zarko Korac, who is also responsible for handling media, Prpa wrote: “I want to inform you that I am resigning the position of a member in the executive Board of Radio Television of Serbia. I feel that both the new general director and certain political parties within DOS are unfairly minimising the Executive Board’s role. In circumstances when Executive Board members are not making decisions on strategic issues connected to the house, but are only recognising previously made decisions, I am not personally ready anymore to take the responsibility for the function that the Serbian government gave to me.”
BELGRADE, September 13, 2001 The Information Act is completed, but it needs to pass a public discussion, which will most probably start in the second half of September, Rade Veljanovski, the director of Radio Beograd and the president of the working group that made the draft of the law, told daily Glas javnosti. Veljanovski said that the seventh version of the Broadcasting Act had been delivered to the Serbian government a month ago, and added that everything has been at a standstill since then. “We still have not had communicated with the new federal Telecommunication Minister, but it was no-one’s fault because neither have we initiated talks with them, Veljanovski said and explained the slowness was because of summer vacations.
BELGRADE, September 13, 2001 - The Independent Alliance of Serbian Journalists told a press conference today that little has changed in terms of media freedom since the overthrow of the Milosevic regime. "Each time passing the Broadcast Act is postponed, the situation becomes more chaotic. Those within the advertising market who contributed to democratic changes have gone out of business," Alliance of Private Broadcasters secretary-general Slobodan Djoric said. New stations spring up every day "technically jamming the existing ones and serving as unfair competition to them within the advertising market. That is why this Act could be another test for the new powers," Djoric added.
BELGRADE, September 13, 2001 - Media analyst Snezana Milivojevic accused the current authorities of lacking any vision regarding the role of media, claiming control of state media today bears many similarities to that of a year ago. ANEM chairman and RTV B92 editor-in-chief Veran Matic said that the situation for electronic media had not changed at all since October 5, 2000. The new Telecommunications law has still yet to be passed and there is no open competition for the distribution of frequencies, said Matic. The ANEM chairman called for an "independent state agency" to regulate such matters, reiterating that several ANEM members are still without licenses. source: ANEM |
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