In their editions, the print media violated the rules of the Journalist Code, mainly in the part concerning non-respect of the principle of innocence, while electronically they made omissions by disrespecting the rule of the other side and did not separate the information from its commentary, the latest analysis of Action for Human Rights, i.e. "Monitoring of journalistic self-regulatory bodies".
HRA compared its monitoring with the one carried out by the Media Self-Regulatory Council (MSS) in the same period, and according to the data they provided, the results are completely different.
While MSS found 83 violations of the Code, HRA registered 511, said one of the authors, Duško Vuković.
"Two-thirds of violations of the Code, in the MSS report, refer to the newspaper Vijesti and Portal Vijesti, as well as "Dan". However, HRA found that more than half of the violations of the Code concern media that are members of the MSS," Vuković explained.
HRA program director Marijana Buljan said that the principles of the Code regarding the accuracy of information and its separation from comments are most often violated. On the other hand, the media do not behave like Choi, she said, because they do not protect others from their force and power.
Buljan presented the information that in the same period, 70 violations of the Code were recorded on all electronic media, of which 43 were on TV Pink M and only in the main news show, because the news "Minut, two" was not followed. On the other hand, MSS, as she explained, cited only one case where pink television did not comply with the rules of professions.
MSS Secretary Ranko Vujović said that they do not have the capacity to follow the television program, and that last year they worked without money.
Goran Đurović, as the president of the Commission for Complaints of Viewers and Listeners of RTCG, said that this cannot be an excuse, especially since he is also the president of the Council of the Electronic Media Agency, which oversees program content.
"It's a shame that you do this monitoring once every two years," he reproached Vujović.
The ombudsman of Vijesti Božena Jelušić said that the media is the image of society, as well as that it is exposed to great pressure from lawyers who have objections to even one word.
"We are getting into a situation where the journalist is not allowed to write anything, that they should give an answer, they don't do it, and later they complain," she said.
The editor-in-chief of TV Vijesti, Vladan Mićunović, suggested amending the Code in the part that does not allow the publication of information about victims, stating that after consultations, they established the position that this should be done after the police inform the families of the victims.
He criticized the lack of emphasis on the part of the Code that concerns the obligations of journalists to critically investigate and publish information about powerful people in the economic and social sphere. Such media are under pressure, he said.
Mićunović, as well as other participants in the discussion after the presentation of the results of the report, advocated that RTCG and "Pobjeda" be under the special attention of media monitoring because they are financed from the budget.
The report refers to the period from October 1, 2013 to March 1 of this year and is the third within the HRA project of the same name.
It was announced that the newly appointed ombudsman of the newspaper "Dan" is Ilija Jovićević, while the director of Monitor Milka Tadić Mijović announced that their ombudsman will be the respected civil activist Paula Petričević.
She agreed with the opinion of the editor of TV Vijesta that media that report critically are under attack.
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