Bodrozic: More than 90% of media outlets is under the control of the authorities and all brutally violate the Code

(Source: N1) Commenting on the six-month monitoring of daily newspapers, NUNS President Željko Bodrožić believes that the Press Council has been showing for nine years that this, if we can call journalism, is in a “very poor, not to say sick condition”.

Bodrožić pointed out that the good news is that in the six months of the observed period, there is no drastically increased number of violations of the Code.

“This monotoring tells us that the scene is what it is – very bad, very toxic. So you can feel in our society, these ten years, the toxic effects of these worst tabloids, not only printed, but also electronic ones that are flooding Serbia. Over 90 percent of the media is controlled by the ruling party, all these media brutally violate the Code, day by day, and now we have exact data for that,” the NUNS president said on show Newsnight.

He pointed out that the Press Council, as far as it exists, has been showing for nine years that this, if we can call it journalism, is in “a very miserable, not to say sick condition”.

“We have a problem here that the generators of hatred, which later spills out through the media, are precisely the politicians, those who are in power first of all, who use the media to target, criminalize their political opponents, critics in the public space,” Bodrozic said.

According to him, laws are good, but they are not enforced or loopholes are sought first by those who should first respect them.

“We have captured institutions that cannot do their job at their full capacity, if they were liberated, the scene would probably be better,” he noted.

As he said, we have a mass phenomenon here that civil rights are being trampled on.

“It is necessary for the state to do something to introduce media literacy as a compulsory subject in the school system, because today it is one of the things that threatens humanity. Today, humanity is collapsing itself because of an excess of bad and fake information,” n1’s interviewee said.

He explained why education is important.

“For people to recognize a lie from the truth,” Bodrožić concluded.

Author: S. K. Ž.