A false code against the profession

AUTHOR: M.J.
The proposed amendments to the RTCG Code of Ethics represent an attempt by the illegally elected director of the Public Service Boris Raonic and part of the RTCG Council to limit the freedom of thought and expression of the employees of this house and create a platform for the persecution of dissenters - says in an open letter a group of employees of the Public Service Srđan Čović, Tanja Šuković, Snezana Rakonjac, Vesna Banović, Vesna Terić, Nataša Baranin, Časlav Vujotić, Jadranka Prelević, Mladen Vukčević and Slaven Knezović.
They point out that at the same time, the illegally elected director, the RTCG Council, which functions as his personal one, and the RTCG Legal Service are given the status of "equal to others".
Encouraged by the high level of cooperation of the competent inspections, agencies and judicial institutions, which are determined to drag out the court proceedings against Raonic until his term ends, bypassing all illegalities, administrative blunders, illegal contracts and decisions, with a very high degree of understanding for Raonic's lawyers who do not come to the trials or come with unusable documents, the management of the Public Service decided to try to base the long-term purges of the ineligible in the house on binding acts. We agree with the management that it is necessary to protect the position and social reputation of RTCG. We believe that this should be done by sanctioning those who brutally trample on the laws by illegally electing, twice, the general director, those who conclude legally disputed contracts, who hide payrolls, who create desirable jobs for their favorites, and shun or fire the unfit ones. Sanctions should also be imposed on those who, under the slogan that the public has the right to know, "push" problematic contents that are not foreseen in the programming and production plan into the Public Service program, and keep silent on other important ones, such as the fact that the European Commission is concerned about a criminal investigation. related to the illegal election of the general director. This news was published by all the media, except for the editorial office under the control of Raonic - says part of the employees in an open letter.
They point out that it is obvious that the management considers that the problem is not his illegal work, but every publication about it.
Therefore, they want to impose a kind of omerta on the employees, the violation of which, judging by the current way of managing the house, will end in the expulsion of the unfit from the house or humiliating job offers. We are convinced of this not only by past practice, but also by the spirit of the times, which was revived by a member of the RTCG Council, Filip Lazović, who said that "the right to free thought must be limited in order not to create anarchy". If he were alive, Beria would envy him.
Since the current management likes to refer to the experience of the best, and boldly asserted that the BBC has exactly the same code, which is a very disputed claim, we salute them, Mr. Lazović in particular, with Orwell's words, which, next to his bust, are at the entrance to Europe's oldest media house, engraved on the wall: "If freedom means anything at all, it means the right to tell people something they don't want to hear." We also add those: "In a world where everything is a deception - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." We will continue to speak it - they conclude in the statement.