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Everything that was once unimaginable today has become normal, not only in tabloids, but also in those media that declare themselves as professional.
The media survives on the market thanks to the columns of the chronicles, which have become ruthless, Al Jazeera journalist Ann Marie Alves Ćurčić told FoNet.
She pointed out that journalism is increasingly dealing with human suffering and misfortune.
"Everything that was once unimaginable has become normal today, not only in the tabloids, but also in those media that declare themselves as professional", assessed Ćurćić in the Kiosk interview series about the Serbian media scene.
The trend of tabloidization has become a global problem, but it is gaining momentum in Serbia, noted Ćirčić and warned that in this way scandalous reporting on tragedies is given legitimacy and thereby endangers the victims and their families.
As she illustrated, it is completely inadmissible to report in front of the house where a sixteen-year-old girl was killed.
Is that how you would report your family?
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Law on Public Information and the Media and the Code of Journalists of Serbia, the identity of a minor child must not be revealed, stressed Ćurčić, who considers it inadmissible for the statement of the murdered girl to appear in the media immediately after the tragedy occurred.
"I would ask the journalists if this is how you would report if it was about your family or the family of someone close to you?" Would you say it's your job if a news crew came to your door or laid wait at cemeteries? I doubt that you would do that," said Ćurčić
According to her opinion, it is important to ask how the family members of the reported victim feel and to question whether there are support systems for that family who, by reading the most brutal details of their tragedy in the media, go through retraumatization.
She pointed out that Serbia has extremely good laws that regulate this area, but that, as in all other spheres, including the media, the laws are not applied.
For them, the reader is not a human being
For the tabloids in Serbia, the reader is not a human being, a person with weaknesses, traumas and problems and, of course, with the value that every human being carries in himself, wrote Jovana Gligorijević for "Vreme" in a column after the tabloids were flooded with details about suicide the child of a famous politician.
"Serbians, the reader is not a human being, a person with weaknesses, traumas and problems and, of course, with the value that every human being carries inside. For them, the reader is just a click, a figure that promises profit, a contract with an advertiser when the media boasts that it has so many hundreds of thousands of visits to the site. For them, the reader is a prey that should be grabbed by predatory techniques, by playing the card of the lowest urges of human curiosity and along the way humiliate him, reduce him to a voyeur, a consumer of someone else's misfortune, kill his dignity, without even knowing what happened to him.
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