Mercy for Owners, crocodile tears for journalists?

It seems that The Star Rakip and Addy Krastta will be no longer on the 24th News screen, but on another screen. The decision not to extend the contract anymore is the owner of the group, which has received a different, “Real Story”.

Interestingly, the debate over the transfer of emissions from one television to another is being presented as a forced movement of owners by the government, not as a project.

In fact, the government's intervention against critical emissions has been a strong tradition of Sali Berisha. In 2010 he conditioned a fine of 6m euros to <x2m euros on “Tring” and a promise of hydro-powered licenses of German investors, partners at “Vision Plus”, provided I shut down the show I was conducting.

But that wasn't so depressing and a problem for press freedom. It was depressing that after that, I couldn't even go on TV as a guest. So Berisha's government, not only had it shut down a terrible critical show, but it had terrorized every TV to isolate a critical journalist.

That time has died forever in Albania, along with Sali Berisha's departure from power.

I don't rule out the possibility that the owner of “News 24” likes not to have a show as critical as that of the Rakipi Star on his screen. Nor does it rule out the possibility that other television owners sell and buy emissions depending on their private interests. That the media here is in the hands of the owners for their interests, it doesn't need a debate.

The problem will be if critics cannot speak or write, not where they speak and write.

If Mr. Rakipi has the opportunity, as he's sometimes had to transfer the show to another TV, it's good to keep the debate to the owners, not to the government, because that's the same thing that affects the appetite and if you see the star at “News 24”, and if you see it at Vizion Plus or Top Channel.

On the other hand, I don't think anyone in the government is more concerned by Adi Krasta than by Fatos Lubonja, who will continue to be at “News 24”.

So we have to share whether in this story we have any resentment with the owners, or with the government, because we're going to see them again, if they want to do and we're going to need some owners to declare enemies of some heroes, but not all of them.

All this debate that has gone to delir, included Sali Berisha, who is acting as chief of TV merkatos and who is crying more about the exit of “Klan” from “Digitobari”, than the DP's exit from the political system.

This is actually an indication of his hypocrisy with his electorate, which he cannot answer for the calamities he has caused and wants to be employed as his son's manager, to bring journalists to the portal and TV he has opened.

But the treatment of media owners as victims of the government, due to the opposition's desire to use for its own troubles, is offensive to the intelligence of the under-average citizen.

Owners are either part of a government censorship plan or not. They cannot be victims of government by having it well with the government, but even better with the opposition, who are concerned as victims.

It is unthinkable to cry for freedom of the press in Albania by reading Berisha's greetings of the fact that Ben Bludshi is being roughed by Sander Frangaj.

I don't think there's a single Democrat in this country to shed tears along with Berisha for Sandra. Same for Surf.

When Irfan Hysenbelliu bought News 24 in 2011 prior to local elections, removing Carlos Bollanos, who was critical of the government, Ifran was a hero for Berisha. Now he is not a traitor but a victim of government.

This debate must end, dividing as a debate over owners who will not lose, neither the government nor the opposition, or as love for journalists who actually want to use both sides.