9 minutes agoKosovo dropped 24 places below in the media freedom index during its rule, Kurti: They Must Improve the Media
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)LVV leader and outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti has chosen his party's General Council to talk about the latest Reporters Without Borders' report, where Kosovo has suffered a major decline in the media freedom index. Although it is a huge burden for Reporters without Borders [...]
LVV leader and outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti has chosen his party's General Council to talk about the latest Reporters Without Borders' report, where Kosovo has suffered a major decline in the media freedom index. Although a huge burden has been placed on Reporters without Borders to Kurti Government and his party, LVV leader has said that the decline in the Reporters' index should improve the media.
According to Kurti, in all other spheres there is improvement, besides the media freedom index, and says there is a contradiction here, which needs to be addressed by the media.
“regret falling in Reporters Without Borders index. I am convinced that Kosovo has freedom of expression and media freedom. U n The NDP in the public pulse report, citizens believe that freedom of expression and media has increased by 12 %. In the fight against corruption we've scored a 31-seat rise. We have been set up for 11 countries for liberal and electoral democracies. The only decline is in the media index. We have a contradiction. The media have to address this contradiction. This is the index that should improve the” media, Kurt said.
What Government has done is that it has removed influence and involvement in media affairs. The VV government has removed politics and power from the media. Before us, power and media were together, even on holidays and holidays. We have no media owner in the government not to control them”, Kurt added.
Kurti has fully placed herself not responsible for the burdened state of media freedom and, according to him, the situation is due to the government, but to “the owner's control and the collapse of professionalism”.
In Kosovo, media are free. The situation where trust in the public has fallen is not the result of government influence but of controlling owners and declining professionalism. We are willing to invest in improved quality, but not in financing. The responsibility is media, it's up to them to reinforce themselves. To improve and improve the image of yourself. Because it's incompatible with reality to compare with journalists in Burnei and Serbia”, Kurti said. /Periscope/
