Position of the Association of Journalists and Publicists (ZNP) regarding the official government dispatch on the state of affairs in the Slovenian media space and the assessment of the situation of the media in Slovenia

The official government letter of explanation about the state of affairs in the Slovenian media space, published on the Council of Europe's online Platform for Freedom of Expression 1in response to alarming reports of the present government’s pressures on journalists - has provoked a strong backlash from dominant media and some policymakers. However, regardless of the political (in)appropriateness of such an approach of the government, the content of the government’s dispatch is, according to an assessment of ZNP, accurate. It highlights certain key problems of the Slovenian media space to which ZNP has often warned in its reports.

Vladna depeša o stanju v slovenskih medijskem prostoru, ki je bila objavljena na spletni Platformi Sveta Evrope za svobodo izražanja – kot odziv na alarmantne zapise o vladnih pritiskih na novinarjev –, je po pričakovanju izzvala burne odklonilne reakcije s strani dominantnih medijev in dela politike. Vendar ne glede na to, kaj si kdo misli o politični (ne)primernosti takšnega pristopa, je vsebina te depeše faktografsko precej točna in izpostavlja določene ključne probleme slovenskega medijskega prostora, na katere smo v ZNP v preteklosti v svojih poročilih o stanju v slovenskih medijih že opozarjali. Nazadnje v poročilu iz 12. septembra 2019.