January 8, 2018<\/p>\n
In the responses, which arrived after a three-week delay, the prime minister claimed that the government is not responsible for many of the noted problems.<\/p>\n
In response to the Group\u2019s demand that the public discrediting and discrimination of journalists ceases, Brnabi\u0107 said that the Government does not differentiate between journalists, but rather treats them all equally.<\/p>\n
In the following days, however, she made declarations that refuted her previous claims \u2013 she dubbed the KRIK research portal, which investigated her real estate ownership, \u201csensationalist\u201d, and also stated that \u201csome\u201d journalists and media claim that there is no media freedom in Serbia, but that it \u201cseems\u201d to her that there is.<\/p>\n
She also said that there are few objective journalists in the country and that she \u201cset a serious precedent by meeting with the Group For Media Freedom, which doesn\u2019t even have representatives of the largest media association \u2013 the Association of Journalists of Serbia\u201d.<\/p>\n
Members of the Group consider that such statements by Brnabi\u0107 mean that she is not only differentiating between journalists, but also confronting them and additionally antagonising the media scene.<\/p>\n
They consider her replies as a reflection of \u201cthe government\u2019s lack of understanding or its unwillingness to confront the difficult situation in which journalists and the media find themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n
Due to such situations, as well as the \u201clack of political will to solve them\u201d, the Group For Media Freedom organised several protests in 2017 and states that it will continue to do so in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January 8, 2018 The Group For Media Freedom, which brings together numerous journalists\u2019 and media owners\u2019 associations, NGOs, media outlets, individual journalists, activists and citizens, submitted a list of 13 demands for improving the situation in the media to the Government of Serbia and Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107 in mid-November. In the responses, which arrived after a three-week delay, the prime minister claimed that the government is not responsible for many of the noted problems. In response to the Group\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\n