State TV reporter speaks out against editor in chief

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Serbian state TV (RTS) reporter Milan Srdic released an open letter to his editor in chief Nenad Lj Stefanovic asking if he reacts to the lies about the student protests on the public broadcaster’s main news.

 

“I am asking you as a human being. Do you react when you play lies about students on the central news show? Is your clumsy unrestricted interpretation of news clumsy, or do you now prefer tabloid tones…. Does your gut react when you hear a noise outside the RTS building,” Srdic wrote and recalled that RTS reporters standing in the crowd of 55,000 people were subjected to insults during the recent protest.

 

“Our news program no longer seems like a balanced public service, but more and more like the tabloid press,” he wrote and recalled that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic lashed out at RTS reporters. “Do you feel something when the most powerful man in the country calls out your journalists and the colleague he brought in connection with statements about some kind of murder? You do not have to think of us as colleagues, or God forbid friends, but only journalists, who no longer have only one target at their forefront,” he added.

 

Srdic, an RTS correspondent from his native Novi Sad, said that the RTS office in that city would not give the editor in chief a chance to edit reports and appealed to editor in chief Nenad Lj Stefanovic to back the RTS news desk and its journalists.

 

Source: N1

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