No. 27
April 14-27, 2012
TV editors get criticized for violent content during prime time - 30th Monitoring Report by ANEM – Boza Prelevic: The media was more critical during Milosevic's rule – Ljiljana Smajlovic: The media acts as accomplice in deceiving the public – Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly calls on politicians to refrain from influencing the media – RTS concludes new agreement on broadcasting of parliamentary sessions – RTS continues testing thousands of candidates – Journalists in Leskovac, Nis and Kraljevo are attacked – Criminal charges are filed against persons distributing B92 "death notice" – Unsolved murders and attempts to kill journalists: Investigations are still unsuccessful after five years in the Anastasijevic case and 13 years in the Curuvija case – European Parliament insists on identifying murderers and those who have obstructed investigations – Anniversary of the political assassination of Slavko Curuvija is marked – Associations protest against obstruction of and lack of results in investigations – Anniversary of death of RTS employees is marked – Protests are organized against inefficiency of investigation on the background of the decision that employees must remain in the threatened building – President of EFN Arne Konig supports Day of Remembrance more |
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Media Center launches Resource Center with high-quality information on elections – Most of the TV airtime is dedicated to the Democratic Party (DS) and Boris Tadic – BIRODI: Reporting on election campaign is characterized by positive instead of critical approach by the media – RRA receives complaints: SNS protests against TV Pink (complaint rejected); Monitoring Section protests against LSV (complaint accepted); a citizen files a meaningless complaint against LSV (complaint is to be considered) – Pravda draws attention to violation by RTS (no reaction from RRA) – Movement Dveri protests against SNS – Diaspora media participate in an event in Belgrade – Programme of B92 is criticized – New examples of unprofessional behavior in the media appear, especially in TV stations – Broadcasting of the new Insider series on B92 is delayed – RRA and RATEL again cut off the programme of TV Zupa and TV Aleksandrovac because of political abuse of airtime – This year's Media Summit organized by ABC is announced – New visits take place – UNS website has published 3000 pieces of information so far – Local media outlets join ABC audit – Anniversary of birth of Mir Jam is celebrated – Commemorative event is dedicated to Verica Barac more |
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Centroproizvod intends to improve retail sale via newsstands – Company Novosti is excessively indebted – Several municipalities announce public contests for allocation of money to the media – VAC offers the government its share in Politika – The offer receives unclear responses – After 10 years, Ana Tomanova revives the rejected media privatization proposal in accordance with the 30:30:40 pattern – Pink searches for partners – Representative of state capital in TV Pirot is appointed more |
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NUNS supports the demand made by the International Federation of Journalists – RRA warns against abuse of children in political videos – RATEL becomes a member of European electronic communication regulators – RATEL investigates each individual reported case of interference with broadcasting signals – RATEL adopts amendments to the Plan of Enumeration – Media Association gets two new vice presidents more |
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TV programme "Okruzenje" is aired in five ex-Yugoslavian republics – Web portal Novinarnica.net covers 90% of all print media outlets – The First Transnational Conference on Digital TV in 2012 dedicated to future challenges and possibilities offered by new standards and technologies within the digital platform is held on April 19-20 in Trieste more |
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