Selective Complaints Commission

(Source: FoNet) BELGRADE – Serbia’s Minister of Information and Telecommunications in a caretaker capacity, Dejan Ristić, stated today that the Complaints Commission of the Press Council is so selective in its decision-making has lost all meaning.

“When we talk about the Press Council, its Complaints Commission is selective in its decisions, and we’ve been witnessing this day after day for years. It’s completely selective, especially considering who the members of the Complaints Commission are,” Ristić said on K1 television, mentioning that among the Commission’s members are FoNet deputy editor-in-chief Tamara Skrozza, Vreme weekly editor-in-chief Filip Švarm, and former Commissioner for Access to Public Information Rodoljub Šabić.

These three, along with many others who are “very clearly opposition-oriented,” Ristić claimed, have every right to their political stance as citizens, but, as he put it, “it is clear that they approach the task entrusted to them by the state — monitoring print and online media — so selectively that the entire process has lost all meaning.”