3 minutes agoBlerim Hadziaj performs the <x0amanet” of power, dismissing RTK journalist who refused to read a pro-Dimal Basha text
Periskopi(5 months ago)
(5 months ago)RTK journalist Edita Avdiu has announced that she will no longer be part of the public broadcaster's screen, linking her failure to continue her contract to read a text that, according to her, was prepared by the ruling party. She says that a series of pressures and [...] are under way after this attitude.
RTK journalist Edita Avdiu has announced that she will no longer be part of the public broadcaster's screen, linking her failure to continue her contract to read a text that, according to her, was prepared by the ruling party.
She says that a series of pressures and disciplinary procedures have been initiated behind her stand, which eventually led to a break in her engagement after three years of work in news editing.
Posting:
The public,
In a normal, democratic state where journalists have free hands to write the truth, tomorrow I'd be at work.
No!
This post I'm making tonight, exactly at 7:30 because from tonight, you won't see me on the Radio Television of Kosovo screen anymore, like any other evening, now three years.
This, not because I lacked my will and commitment, but that RTK's current management, which is operating without a mandate, has decided not to continue my regular contract.
This announcement came to me a few weeks ago, in writing, by the RTK administration, which, like today three years ago, informed me that the selection commission was defined as you.
You're the most successful candidate, so through this e-mail, we inform you that you've accepted us.
The job you applied for.
And three years later, without any reasoning, with annual values above average from news editors, without a look at my file, the same administration has informed me that the contract will not be reassembled.
So, it wasn't the public that sent me away, but directly, editor-in-chief Blerim Hadziaj, who started disciplinary procedures against me that were turned back.
This is after:
“AD HOC COMMISON RADIOLEVION COSOWING at a meeting
In 09.10.2025, he got this:
COUNTRY
1. Approved as based on all complaints with No.1773/25 date 22.09,2025 of the Edita complaint party
Avdiu, arranged at work site newspaper 1.
II Empowers decision 1726/25 of the 1109.2025 year, with which
Employer Edith Avdiu has been pronounced light disciplinary action “written version”
However, the struggle to degrade me and finally leave, it didn't stop.
Warning not to follow the contract from a public institution like RTK came in my fifth month of pregnancy, about what my superiors were aware of.
Neither my reasoning nor my decision was conveyed, POR the reasons known are that;
In these three years of involvement in the public broadcaster, the ruling party didn't even negotiate when I held the microphone in my hand and asked questions, even when I left it on the ground, so they decided to take it from my hand.
In both cases I was invited by the editor-in-chief who told me that pressure from the ruling party is huge, the pressure that came on him in an envelope with 200 grand from the Government, while my question for the prime minister was, why don't I have a salary?
Pressure was proven to practice on me as a journalist, of course not directly from the party, but through their tools inside RTK, in the position of editors.
Despite the pressure, censorship, boring morning meetings, where the topics were refused to coincide with the ruling party, where the journalists hid our heads behind the computer screen not to be given the lyrics coming directly from the party, although somehow I managed to achieve a balanced chronice for the central edition.
The influence of the ruling party, on the News Room, was feeling as strong as the day came that journalists were happy if one day we were saved without being given any task of this kind.
In these circumstances, to be real, they weren't like that when I started working, I managed to make 803 chronics, hundreds of direct connections.
But the biggest job I've done, I think, is the chronics I've done, the texts I've read.
One of them is this text, written in the Party's office, which came to me as an order from the editor to read it, the day that the chief speaker was elected Dimal Basha. The instinct was to simply read it without asking questions and answering who the author was.
Of course I refused to read this text with unprofessional quality for the central news edition.
However, since I've worked and only committed myself to the public interest, I'm leaving it in the book of comments, the text of that day, for the public to read and understand; why I'm no longer part of Kosovo's public television.
