The President of the Media Center Assembly, Dragoljub Duško Vuković, said that Television of Montenegro, the national public broadcaster, has unannounced started publishing a series of exclusive interviews with those accused of serious crimes.
"We say series because we think it is illogical to exclusively interview only the accused businessman Duško Knežević, and leave out many other accused who could share something exclusively with the audience of national public television. We are sure, however, that nothing will come of such a series, so the team more intriguingly, what did the detainee Knežević charge the nation that TVCG visits him in Spuz and chats with him," said Vuković.
Last night, the public service broadcast an interview with Knežević that was recorded in prison.
Vuković explains that the interview might have made sense from a professional point of view if Knežević had offered something more than "fabulous stories that have been littering the Montenegrin media space for a long time."
"Thus, it turned out that the national public television served for the exclusive media promotion of one of the defendants and indirectly suggested to the audience that this is someone who deserves special attention and sympathy. Bearing in mind that there was no visible professional reason for this exclusive interview, it was that the editorial staff of TVCG should make an effort to reveal to the public what motivated them to this pretension. In fact, it is more correct to ask who persuaded them to this professionally unaccountable pretension, by which they once again showed that they are more amenable to the thought and will of their political mentors than to the will of the public and her right to know," said Vuković.
He says that unprofessional outbursts like this not only detract from the spirit of the adopted RTCG Program Production Plan for this year, but herald further tabloidization of national public television...
"... to meet the problematic law that will allow it to publish commercials in the prime time from 20.00:22.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. The more exclusive interviews of this type with the defendant Knežević, the more attractive TVCG will be to advertisers, but, unfortunately, it will look less and less to a truly public media service for the citizens of Montenegro," concluded Vuković.
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