At a recent meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP), Slovenian MEP Romana Tomc launched an initiative for a discussion of the unacceptable employee purges at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). The President of EPP, Manfred Weber, has already condemned the said purges and also called on the European Commissioner Věra Jourová to …
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In the past week, we have followed the political purge of journalists, which four Constitutional Court judges – Matej Accetto, Rajko Knez, Katja Šugman Stubbs and Špelca Mežnar – allowed to happen by overriding the decision that five Constitutional Court judges came to beforehand. In order to force the resignation of the now-former Editor-In-Chief of …
The “depoliticised” management of the national media outlet Radio Television Slovenia (RTVS) is “purging” the public institution of undesirable persons. The victims of a kind of media “night of broken glass” are journalists who are obviously too far removed from the state of mind of the collective of the activistic journalists of RTV and their …
“Directors, editors and journalists are being let go… Will you keep quiet this time, too?” MEP Romana Tomc reacted strongly on Twitter, calling on those who are largely responsible for what is going on to take responsibility after the most recent brutal staff purge at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), which is more …
The national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS) recently announced that it had “refreshed” the show Arena by removing presenters Igor Pirkovič and Vida Petrovčič and replacing them with new presenters. Valentina Plaskan was also left without her show – Dnevnik. The new term for depoliticisation and the reckoning with recalcitrant presenters is, therefore, “refreshment”. In …
On Tuesday, Jadranka Rebernik, the Editor-in-Chief of Television Slovenia’s news programme, sent in her irrevocable resignation to Zvezdan Martič, the new Chairman of the board of the national media outlet, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). Until a new editor-in-chief is appointed, Polona Fijavž will lead the editorial department as the Acting Editor-in-Chief. Rebernik’s resignation comes as no …
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“It is by no means normal practice for uniformed police officers to enter the premises of an autonomous media outlet and search for an individual journalist. This has never happened before and should not happen in democratic societies,” the Association of Journalists and Publicists was critical after Jože Možina, a long-time journalist at the national …
“Freedom” seems to have started showing its teeth ever since the complete politicisation of the public media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS) under the guise of depoliticisation has happened. After the unanimous dismissal of the last disturbing element, Uroš Urbanija, from the post of Acting Director of Television Slovenija, it seems that the intimidation of journalists …
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Andraž Pöschl is the editor who was directly responsible for the scandal on the 7th of February this year, when, after the official end of the broadcast of the Slovenian Cultural Holiday celebrations, he continued the broadcast so that Svetlana Makarovič could come on stage. Accompanied by Jašaa Jenull and Boris A. Novak. On Thursday, …
“The Council of RTV Slovenia has given its consent for the dismissal of Uroš Urbania from the position of Acting Director of Television Slovenia. There were no votes against the decision.” This is how the Left party (Levica) welcomed Urbanija’s dismissal, and the leftist non-governmental organisation, the 8th of March Institute, also spoke out. Yesterday, …
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“The Acting Director-General or the new President of the Management Board of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, Zvezdan Martić, has literally made an epic managerial start,” said investigative journalist Bojan Požar, referring to the three recent changes in the position of acting head of the Multimedia Centre of RTV Slovenia. Martić did not stop …
On Thursday, we saw the last act of the political usurpation of the national media outlet, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). The pluralisation attempt has thus ended with the dismissal of the now-former acting Director-General, Andrej Grah Whatmough, who will be replaced by Zvezdan Martič, the new President of the Management Board of RTVS. In his response, …
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