Violence due to defeat
Regime tactic: Strike, then cover
In one day, on Monday, April 28, there was excessive police force and laxity regarding the announcement of a competition for the REM Council. Is there a secret connection?
Lever of power
What is the work of REM and who can be a candidate for the Council of this body?
Although the Law on Electronic Media clearly defines the competencies of REM, practice shows the opposite. Instead of independent monitoring, REM is increasingly associated with passivity and selective response, which causes public and professional concern
Mediji
A new competition for the selection of members of the REM Council has been announced: The blockade of RTS has ended
At the session of the Committee for Culture and Information, the old concussion was annulled and a decision was made to initiate the procedure for nominating candidates for the election of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).
Media control
REM: What it is and why it doesn't work
While at the moment everything at the student protests revolves around the demand for a new election of members of the REM Council, the argument between Olivera Zekić and the students in the blockade is ongoing. About who knows and who doesn't what REM really is
National public service
"REM is ours": Students set a condition for the end of the blockade of RTS
If the Parliament of Serbia announces a competition for REM Council members, the students who blocked the public service for two weeks announced the unblocking of this institution, but also said that they will remain organized and ready for new actions
Regulatory body for electronic media
Offices: Eight measures for the highest possible selection of REM Council members
The Bureau of Social Research (Birodi) proposed eight measures that should ensure the highest possible level of quality of candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media
Blockade of Radio and Television of Serbia
Brnabić: Session of the Committee for Culture and Information on April 28
On the tenth day of the blockade of Radio and Television of Serbia, the President of the Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, announced a session of the Committee for Culture and Information, where they will discuss the election of REM Council members. The European Commission notes that the election should be conducted in a transparent and comprehensive manner
Public service
The assembly of RTS workers: REM is blocked, and the public service is hostage to political silence
While students and citizens block the entrance to the RTS building for the sixth day, the Union of Public Service Workers announced four demands and said: the public service is essentially blocked by institutions that refuse to regulate the media scene. In particular, they requested an urgent call for tenders for the REM Council, whose work has been paralyzed since November
Students in the blockade
Blockade of RTS: Egg painting in Takovska, without a regular program
The fifth day of the blockade of the Radio and Television of Serbia buildings in Takovska Street in Belgrade and in Košutnjak is underway. The public service was forced to change the program scheme, and as they state, they are working in the most difficult conditions so far. A criminal complaint was also filed against the students blocking RTS buildings
Public service
Blockade of RTS: The morning program was two hours late
Students have been blocking the Public Service for four days in Takovska Street and in Kosutnjak, demanding that a new competition be announced for REM Council members.
Student blockades
RTS blocked: The program runs smoothly
While the students block the RTS public service building in Belgrade, the program continues to be broadcast. Why did the students once again decide to block the buildings of the Public Service
Mediji
How millions from the budgets of Niš and Vranje flowed into "Informer"
The city administrations of Niš and Vranje paid millions of dinars from their budgets to pro-government tabloids, and especially to Informer. It is a systematic abuse of the media law, says Professor Rade Veljanovski
The fight against corruption
Conflict of interest: I give you a license, you give me an apartment?
The recent president of REM, Olivera Zekić, did not report the apartment and garage she bought from Tanjug TV editor Jovana Joksimović to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. It was a conflict of interest due to the granting of a work license to this television that preceded the purchase, CINS and BIRN reveal.
Personal attitude
Serbia without a government and without REM
While Serbian citizens take to the streets en masse and students brutally fight each other, the country is left without two key pillars of government - the government and the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM). At the same time, the process of electing new members of REM, the body that should ensure the independence of the media space, completely fell apart due to irregularities and political manipulations that led to the withdrawal of candidates from most of the nomination areas.
Reacting
Opre Roma: Minorities are not respected in the National Assembly
None of those present at the meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information protested that Živorad Ajdačić was bothered by the emotion in, as he said, the "Gypsy language", the Opra Roma organization points out and demand that the National Assembly deprive him of all functions
Election of REM Council members
Council of REM in the service of government: How credible are the proposed candidates
Public discussions with candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) are underway, and the profession indicates that the proposed candidates are not competent
Mediji
Determined candidates for the REM Council
Among the candidates are media expert Saša Mirković, political analyst Dejan Vuk Stanković and playwright Željko Hubač
Mediji
Confirmed candidacies for the Council of REM Members
Members of the Committee of the Serbian Parliament for Culture and Information adopted the list of proposed candidates with 11 votes in favor and four votes against
REM
BIRODI: The prosecution rejected the criminal investigation in REMU
The Prosecutor's Office for the Fight against Organized Crime has informed the Bureau of Social Investigations (BIRODI) that there are no grounds for suspicion that the members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) have committed a criminal offense under their jurisdiction, for which prosecution is undertaken on an official basis
REM
The candidacy of "anti-Serb" Željko Hubač for the REM Council was rejected
The Parliamentary Committee for Culture has concluded that the documentation of Željko Hubač is not valid and therefore does not have the conditions to run for the REM Council. Hubač claims that this is not true and states that the labeling of Nebojša Bakarec is subject to the Law on Discrimination
Mediji
Who are the candidates for the REM Council
After a month and a half since the term of office of REM Council members expired, new candidates were proposed on Thursday. Who's on that list
REM final report
UNS: Vučić's list ruled unchallenged in the election campaign
REM's final report on the media coverage of last year's December elections, into which UNS had insight, but which REM does not publish, talks about the drastic disproportion of time devoted to the participants of the election process on the channels of all commercial national broadcasters, so the list "AV - Serbia does not sme da stop" undisputedly ruled the program of these televisions
Personal attitude
The fight for an independent REM
If the opportunity to reform the body that has the power to shape the media space in Serbia is missed now, and if people with integrity are not elected to it, the media scene in Serbia will remain hostage to political influence for years to come.
Assembly of Serbia
The procedure for proposing REM members has been initiated
The session of the Committee for Culture and Information of the Serbian Parliament, where the proceedings were initiated, took place in a heated debate between representatives of the government and the opposition, and you could also hear praise for Ana Brnabić that she "resisted vandals" at the session of the Serbian Parliament.
What will happen to REM?
Black hole for the media
The mandate of the outgoing Council is remembered for the absence of a sincere initiative to organize the local media space. Also, the deadlines for granting expired TV and radio licenses were broken, and the famous fifth license for national coverage was not granted. Their last move was the unanimously voted allocation of a regional frequency to Informer TV, and that was against the law. Are better days coming
TV maniac
Curative against living mud
I have never seen a more senseless decision than three days of mourning in Vojvodina, while in the rest of Serbia it lasted only one day. Where exactly territorially do we stop grieving - when we cross the bridge in Beška or weep all the way to Banovac? Paradoxically, the viewers in Vojvodina have classical music and a changed program, while the national frequency channels are bursting with joy.
REM
Olivera Zekić: Informer TV had a perfect report
"We gave Informer TV the Belgrade license, because all eight members of REM voted for it, because Informer TV was the best and they had no competition," Olivera Zekić, the former president of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, told "Vreme"