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Televisions N1 and Nova S today filed a lawsuit against REM due to the decision to grant national licenses to existing broadcasters. Also today, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation announced that from April to July of this year, 197 attacks on critical journalists were recorded in the tabloids.
Televisions N1 and Nova S today filed a lawsuit against the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), due to the decision that granted national licenses for television broadcasting exclusively to the existing broadcasters Pink, B92, Prva and Happy TV. They believe that the rules of the procedure were violated, that the factual situation was wrongly determined, and that the law was wrongly applied.
N1 and Nova S are convinced that any - even superficial, objective analysis would establish the superiority of their application in technical, organizational, financial and especially programmatic terms. REM is not authorized to make discretionary decisions and subjectively give trust to broadcasters, nor to privilege existing broadcasters based on past work, but is obliged to base its decision on prescribed criteria, which it neglected in this procedure, according to the legal team of N1 and Nova S.
They believe that REM acted clearly illegally, and made a discretionary decision contrary to the terms and purpose of the competition. Not only is such a decision against the international practice and obligations of the Republic of Serbia, but also the previous practice of Serbian courts in similar cases, which REM itself must be aware of, and Nova S and N1 believe that the court will not have a difficult task in this particular case.
Also today, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation announced that from April to July of this year, 197 attacks on critical journalists were recorded in the tabloids.
According to their monitoring, the Code of Journalists of Serbia was most frequently violated by Alo.rs, Republika.rs (portal of the Serbian telegraph), Informer.rs, Kurir.rs and Objektiv.rs.
The most frequently attacked newspapers, portals and televisions of the United Group - Nova - at least 66 times, N1 at least 47 times and the newspaper Danas at least 41 times, and Cenzolovka, NIN, Nedeljnik, Vreme, Deutsche Vele, and Glas Amerika were not bypassed either. In some articles, they targeted specific journalists: Jelena Obućina, Slobodan Georgiev, Željko Bodrožić, Marko Vidojković and Dragoljub Draža Petrović.
In 29 texts on different portals, the same or very similar texts were written, titles, subtitles, identical sentences were repeated, and even the same phrases insulting critics of the government, which gives reason to suspect that the tabloids receive ready-made texts from the same source.
S.Ć./N1
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