On Saturday, the much-awaited Freedom Festival, organised by the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) took place at Lake Zbilje; however, it was not actually as free as they made it seem, as only selected pro-government media were invited to the event, and a cameraman from Nova24TV was not allowed to attend, allegedly due to …
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Almost nine years ago, Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The brothers of Algerian origin accused the weekly of making fun of the Prophet of Islam. As a result, they killed 12 people. In recent days in Slovenia, we have witnessed a political attack on a caricaturist from …
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Robert Golob understands that the only way to his re-election is the complete Putinisation of the Slovenian media. He succeeded in doing this with Siol by replacing its editor; he also successfully “depoliticised” the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia with the help of Constitutional Court judges, and Odlazek’s extensive media network and the largest commercial …
We recently saw once again what media freedom looks like to Robert Golob and the rest of the members of the current government. But this time, the focus was not on the Prime Minister but on his Minister of Health, Danijel Bešič Loredan, who interrupted a journalist at a press conference in the middle of …
“The rapporteur for the organisation Reporters Without Borders RSF is Blaž Zgaga. This is also clear from the report itself and should be taken into account when assessing its credibility. In the report, he is sullying the government’s reputation and promoting the Necenzurirano (Uncensored) web portal and others, while journalists like Jože Možina, Igor Pirkovič, …
The Dutch government of Mark Rutte resigned in January this year after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay the money back. In light of the tense political events of recent days, in which the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also got unnecessarily involved when he intervened with …
“Currently trying to clarify the media ‘dictatorship’ for the EU Parliament’s mission. I told them loud and clear what is true: 90 percent of the media is being dictated and brutally used for the political fight by the transitional left – on RTV Slovenia, the main party that is doing this is the SD,” RTV …
The opposition is convinced that the Ministry of Culture has allocated funds to media outlets that are pro-government. That is why the chairwoman of the Committee for Culture, Violeta Tomić, convened an extraordinary session of the committee, where the members voted on the appropriateness of the tender of the Ministry of Culture. The proposals of …
At the recent plenary session in Brussels on media freedom in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia, SD Party president Tanja Fajon said that not only is heath currently being threatened in Slovenia, but also media freedom and democracy. This was, of course, said with the intention of creating an atmosphere for her parliamentary colleagues in Brussels …
Apparently, some people are unable to come to terms with the recent results of the report of the American non-governmental organisation Freedom House, in which Slovenia received 95 points on the scale by which they measured the level of freedom for 2020. Which is one point more than the year before. The leader of the …
Prior to the debate in the European Parliament (March 10), the International Press Institute (IPI), together with 18 other organizations (including the Slovenian Journalists’ Association), wrote to MEPs (HERE). Jože Biščak (editor of the magazine Demokracija and president of the Slovenian Association of Patriotic Journalists) and Vinko Vasle (a long-time journalist and former director of …
