5 minutes agoAGK joins NGOs and activists in calling for RTK Board to resign
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)The Kosovo Journalists' Association has joined nongovernmental organisations and activists in demanding the Kosovo Radio Television Board's resignation. That requirement comes after this medium published an article in a Bosnian portal that labels two media in the country like Serbia. Kosovo Journalists' Association “Joins nongovernmental organisations [...]
That requirement comes after this medium published an article in a Bosnian portal that labels two media in the country like Serbia.
Kosovo Journalists' Association “Joins non-governmental organisations and activists in demanding the resignation of Kosovo's Radio Public Television Board”, the AGKUA response reported.
Organisations and activists expressed concern with RTK's board statement, following a meeting held Tuesday concerning the writing that was published. The board, consisting of Besnik Boletini, chairman, and members Albulen Mehmeti, Arta Berisha, Safet Kabashaj, Fatime Lum-Kehaja, Biroll Urcan, Dardan Beqiri and Radojica Mrdjinac, took no measures yesterday.
“instead of suspending all responsibilities for issuing this disinformation, Board of RTK was content with an expression of “clarging” for the article in question and forming a commission to clarify the “by not distanceing or apologizing. It's extremely disturbing that the disinformative article published by RTK, the board has been named as “contravers” and has declared false that RTK did not mention media names. This is meant to ease the scandal that has happened to the public broadcaster and bypassing the fact that this news contradicts the RTK Law, the RTK Statistics and the Professional Standards. Commission formation is the popular method used to prolong the procedures in the hope that the public will forget”, said the response of both jiq and activists.
Beyond the recent event, civil society and activists say a series of other developments occurred in RTK that give clear indicators that the broadcaster's board no longer functions independently from the ruling party”.
“Here includes forcing former director General Shkumbin Ahmetxekaj to resign and exercise pressure on him, creating a practice of publishing information that violates ethical and legal standards such as information about allegations of assassinations against power leaders, publishing different videos that help government Narratives and the news like the one that is intended not to inform the public but to do government propaganda<1>, it says in response.
Organisations and activists who joined in this response consider that RTK's <x0bord by making successive concessions has allowed the extension of power to the public broadcaster and no longer enjoys the credibility and independence needed to further their mandate and must resign from their positions”.
