The mainstream media presentations of the candidates and programmes for the local elections 2018 was partly biased in favor of the left-wing candidates. Unfortunately, the mainstream media continues the trend from the National Assembly elections when they clearly and openly took a stand of the transitional left. Their political instrumentalisation was evident in the electoral campaigns especially in the municipalities of Ljubljana and Maribor.

V zadnjem času RTV Slovenija na televiziji, radiu in spletni strani MMC RTV SLO daje prostor določenim političnim aktivistom, ki nacionalno medijsko hišo, katero plačujemo vsi slovenski davkoplačevalci, zlorabljajo za obračun z mediji, ki niso pod nadzorom vladajoče elite oz. ki poročajo drugače kot dominantni mediji. Po njihovo podjetja v (delno) državni lasti ne bi smela oglaševati v medijih, ki domnevno širijo sovražni govor. Pri tem samo povsem arbitrarno določajo, kaj sploh je sovražni govor.