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"As far as I can see on the Serbian market, some of the most famous televisions use people with mental disorders, or who are in a difficult social situation, in order to increase the viewership"
"Journalism in Serbia and Croatia differs in that it is more brutal in Serbia, which does not mean that the Croatian market is a flower, but the Serbian one is a little more brutal, fiercer and the rules are a little less respected," said the journalist of the Croatian Radio and Television Aleksandar Stanković in "Marker" show of Insider television.
Emphasizing that there is no tabloid in Croatia "in the true sense of the word", Stanković said that his assessment does not only apply to print media, but also to televisions in Serbia: "As far as I can see on the Serbian market, some of the most famous televisions exploit people with mental disorders, or who are in a difficult social situation, would they not increase the viewership. I think that there is a regulatory body in Croatia that would react in such situations. It probably exists in Serbia, but it is a little more permeable than in Croatia".
Speaking about the attitude of the powerful towards the media and the abuses resorted to by representatives of the authorities, Stanković said that the influence of the authorities in Croatia is no longer so strong.
"You know what, in the admission of Croatia to the EU, we also had those chapters that concerned media freedoms, and there, so to speak, they squeezed us a lot. And that's where the standards at that time were the highest. After that, the standards dropped a bit, so we had a right-wing government that didn't last long, which squeezed the media really hard and had the intention of completely shutting down all non-profit media. However, that has changed, it is no longer the case," Stranković said.
He says that the media in Croatia still have problems with the government, but "much less than it was some twenty years ago", "the influence of the government is not as obvious as it used to be".
When asked if, as the author and presenter of the show "Nedeljom u 2", which has been broadcast for years on the Croatian public service, he suffered pressure because his guests were often from Serbia, Stanković says that he did not have such pressure, at least when it comes to to his television, and that "he would not have survived for so many years on the airwaves of Croatian television, if everything was based only on nationality", but that there is something called "professionalism".
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