NUNS, UNS and the Nezavisnost media branch trade union are urging media to stop broadcasting Wednesday within the “Five minutes of thunderous silence” campaign.
In separate statements, the journalist associations said the traditional campaign is a warning to the public about the never-worst position of the journalistic profession in Serbia.
NUNS and Nezavisnost said, on the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, that “freedom is the right to tell people the truth” and that the role of media workers is “not to fulfill the wishes of powerful persons.”
They said that journalists “must achieve unity and raise their voice” when “one man has occupied and monopolized almost the complete public scene, exploiting it to the extreme,” while hundreds of journalists lost their jobs, as others are paid less money, and irregularly, even in the most profitable media.
NUNS and Nezavisnost also appealed on the public in Serbia to remember the impunity of crimes against journalists, reminding that “23 years have not been enough to discover who killed journalist Dada Vujasonovic, it is not know even after 18 years who gave the order to kill colleague Slavko Curuvija, the killers and those who gave the order to kill jourbalist Milan Pantic remain unknown and unpunished for 16 years.”
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