Director of Television Vijesti and ND Vijesti, Marijana Kadić Bojanić, said that the maintenance of print media is very important, because of traditional journalism, and that the state, that is, neither this government nor the previous ones, have done anything to regulate the market.
She said this at the regional conference "Disinformation Network: Stolen Democracy", which is being held at the "Hilton" hotel in Podgorica.
"It is the state that must provide a platform for the development of the media, so that companies can function, there must not be monopolies. It has not taken off in Montenegro, we are struggling with it," said Kadić Bojanić.
She emphasized that in such a small country, the neoliberal concept, i.e. expecting the market to regulate itself, is impossible.
Kadić Bojanić said that regulation of the market is necessary, but that has not happened, the situation is getting more complicated, that is, the situation is getting worse.
"The big problem is the huge number of portals. The portal can be created from the living room. No order has been introduced, to this day we don't have a register, that is, we don't know who is on the many portals, who are the editors, who are the journalists," she stated.
As an example of a portal, Kadić Bojanić cited the case before the August parliamentary elections, when the portal udar.me appeared, which labeled people, including two from "Vijesti".
She pointed out that to this day it is not known who is standing on the portal.
"We wrote to the authorities, they replied that they could not find who was behind that portal," Kadić Bojanić said.
She said that for this reason it is necessary to regulate the market, because in this way the anti-media and paramedia will be eliminated.
Kadić Bojanić pointed out that the platitude about media pluralism has come to the head of essential pluralism.
As she clarified, during the time of Slobodan Milošević's rule, there was a large number of media, but that does not mean that we had media pluralism, because there was no media freedom.
Kadić Bojanić said that the role of the media is public interest and that the media in the 21st century has a much broader role.
Raonic: We live in a country where there is a lot of hypocrisy
Director of Radio Television of Montenegro Boris Raonic said that we live in a country where there is a lot of hypocrisy.
As he explained, not everyone can talk about disinformation, that is, they have to be professional journalists, and Montenegro is a small country where everything is known.
Raonic said that the role of the Public Service is to provide quality and objective information to citizens.
As one of the ways to fight against misinformation, Raonic mentioned raising the level of culture, and that the process of fighting this scourge will continue.
Raičević: Abazović's statement is scandalous
The director of Adria Telezija, Rajka Raičević, pointed out that the recent statement by Mandate Dritan Abazović about punishing certain media is "scandalous".
She said that it is absolutely unacceptable to introduce censorship and set restrictions, and we pretend to be a democratic society whose postulates are freedom of media and expression.
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"The public service will foster a culture of professional journalism, citizens will receive verified and accurate information without it being burdened by the protection of party interests," said Raonic.
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"We have inspections every day and we are completely legal. We were founded by a company from Montenegro, we are Montenegrin television," Raičević said.
Raonic pointed out that the Public Service is not flawless. "None of the mistakes were intentional, nor was it part of a campaign that some right-wing circles tried to attribute to the Public Service. Not all media are the same, and one can go further and say that not all are media either, some are someone's propaganda tools," he said. Raonic.
Đuranović: In the XNUMXs, the authorities in Belgrade and Podgorica also used the media for war politics
Đuranović stated that the authorities in Belgrade and Podgorica in the XNUMXs, when they launched a mobilization campaign for war policy, also used the media.
"The media played an important negative role. False information spread very quickly back then, so the role of the media is extremely important and the information verification system is very important. Especially now that we have social networks and a whirlwind of information," Đuranović said.
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