In the hopeless theatre of absurdity, when it became clear that there would be no early elections and no new government, the representatives of the deep state presented a formula analogous to their actions during the pandemic. If they were once destroying Slovenia from within, with the media influences on the main distributors of public …
Many years ago, the thesis was established in Slovenia that the right-wing political option has great difficulties observing the democratic rules of the game and that it is precisely at times when the centre-right governments are in power that most problems arise, related to government interference in media freedom and other autonomous social systems, such …
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TV show host Mojca Mavec has recently confirmed once again that RTV Slovenia, our national public broadcasting organisation, is unable to change. On St. George’s day, Mavec decided to go off script and politicise. Unfortunately, it turns out that the public television, which we all pay for, is incapable of having even one show on …
“This is true liberty: when free-born men having to advise the public may speak free. What can be juster in a state than this?” John Milton wrote sometime around 1644. But unfortunately, we know that free media, especially nowadays, is a kind of utopia. However, we should, in the role of the nation’s reason, memory …
“It is really great that today’s meeting of Sophie in’t Veld’s group was publicly broadcast. That was not how it was intended at first. But since it was publicly broadcast, it was not possible to hide the complete ignorance of the European bureaucrats about what was happening in Slovenia. They really have no idea,” said …
An anonymous letter from the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reveals that director Bojan Veselinović has an authoritarian ruling style, pays himself and his chosen ones rich rewards for “work performance”, and most employees are afraid of him because he is “self-interested, insidious, and vindictive”. “However, he has a good support, as more than half of STA …
“Brussels’ interference can be a double-edged sword. The success of the European intervention is questionable, especially if it would foster the feeling in Slovenian politics that the EU is not part of the solution, but part of the problem,” the “independent” and “transparent” newspaper Delo (work) wrote on Sunday, as they are worried about various …
Slovenian Deputy Prime Ministers Zdravko Počivalšek and Matej Tonin also expressed their support for an independent media investigation in Slovenia. “I second the call for action. If Brussels only has the (dis)information from one side, they cannot have a complete picture of the situation,” Počivalšek wrote, and Matej Tonin reminded everyone that “it is only …
“We do not need hostility and “war” in Slovenia. What we need is a responsible government, a constructive opposition and a plural and fair media landscape. Not one where the media from the right is described as the “factory of evil” and those from the opposite side are described, on a daily basis, as credible, …
