“RTK Commission begins interviewing involved persons, even editing in portal news will be investigated

The commission, which consists of three journalists with experience in Radio Kosovo, has been officially operating since Monday.

The slandering news. RTK to Periscop, appointed ad-hoc commission

According to sources NationalsThis commission. RTK has already started interviewing all public television officials, who were involved in “warning” against Periscopi and Nationals.

Sources have said that this commission has investigated a list of all persons to be interviewed.

The Commission has started work. They're meeting almost every day. They designed a list, and started with interviewing all persons who were involved in”, Said a source under the condition of anonymity.

The commission has also established another information technology team, which will investigate the aspect of the intervention at the RTK portal.

That's after the portal RTKLive had first named Periscope National, and then the text was edited by removing its names.

“A IT commission was created to see if there were, and who made the intervention on the site”, He said this source.

Sources have told the paper that the commission's work could last a while, however, the report will identify what violations have been.

Next, the decision belongs to the board and management.

The commission's “work will be to show if there were violations, and what they were in this report. The issue of the measures then belonged to the management board”, They've said resources for Nacional.

It's been eight days since the Board. RTK pledged taking measures concerning the scandalous news, where two Kosovo media were reportedly paid from Serbia.

Despite the establishment of the investigative commission, what this commission has done is not yet known.

None of the responsible have claimed responsibility. Even the TV director, the militia director, Riley Gervalla, has strongly defended the scandalous reporting.

“U.d. principal has informed the board that it will form a professional commission to clarify the situation in detail and shed light on editorial responsibility for this issuing and will take rigorous law-conform measures and the internal acts of RTK” It was said in the RTK Board communiqué.

W. D The retired director, Zana Spahiu, came up with a reaction yesterday. However, pale reactions. She didn't say a word about scandalous reporting, even indirectly had a few words for journalists distanced from this report.

“We often forget what RTK really is, we often forget that we are television and radio. We often forget that we are competitive with other local media and that we should do our best to look forward. Sometimes I fear that we have forgotten to distinguish between the criticism coming from the taxpayers and the damage that comes from the competition”, She said, despite neither National nor Periscope, because they are not television.

The unexpected, as if the lightning, happened for which there was a big reaction, mainly from outside, from journalists and civil society”, wrote Spahiu, saying nothing of the scandal that happened.

“RTK is an institution we should never easily distance ourselves from”, she said, hinting at distant journalists and forgetting the distance protests in the past.

However, reactions have not stopped within RTK and outside RTK. Kosovo Radio Television chief-in-chief Leonor Brbatovci was notified a few days ago with a scripture after many reactions, however, not a word for “faque-necesser, issued by the public broadcaster.

We also looked into the morning of Monday. But since noon, we stopped seeing each other. We never even heard it or left it. I saw only the distance. I read some and saw others as only “follers” of the inventors” She wrote.

Brbatovci reacted to a RTK colleague. Spring Munishi, editor at RTK, reacted to Brbatovci for the debate invitation.

And I'm really convinced that you're aware of the professional offense that's been committed that night, so I've distanced myself, because I've refused to identify myself with the news that politics has prepared. ” She wrote.

After publishing the scandalous news, RTK has been sharply criticised by foreign and local organisations, by journalists and analysts who say RTK is seized by power.

Nongovernmental organisations and activists have demanded the RTK Board's resignation following scandalous reporting on lack of independence and professionalism in exercising their mandate.

Kosovo's “Radio Television (RTK) has re-published dezinformative information in order to attack online media Nacional and Persiscope under the claim controlled by Serbia. This torment fed over years by the ruling party Vetevendosje aims to denigrate journalists and rush citizens against them, which poses a danger to their security. ” They said their reaction.

Also, international organisation “Safe Journalist” has reacted sharply in the wake of power attacks on Nacional and Periscope.

“Detect SafeJournalists strongly condemns the slander campaign launched by the Vetevendosje Movement, as well as the distribution of “warning” such as the other media attack on Kosovo Public Broadcasting RTK. We call on Prime Minister Kurti to condemn this slanderous campaign and distance himself from these baseless charges. Moreover, we encourage the affected media to pursue legal action against those responsible for raising such grave accusations, including the main sources behind them” ) It was said in their reaction.

The PDK has indicated it will initiate the motion for the dismissal of members of the RTK Board.