The Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) launched proceedings against TV Pink today in an emergency session due to the well-founded assumption that articles of the Law on Electronic Media were violated by showing the sexually explicit recording in today's "Novo jutro" show.
After reviewing the disputed content, the Expert Service of REM concluded that the content is in violation of the Law on Electronic Media, the Rulebook on the Protection of Human Rights in the Field of Media Services, as well as the Rulebook on the Protection of the Rights of Minors in the Field of Media Services.
In a statement, REM stated that the content of the show is clearly of a political pre-election character and that it was marked as such. On the other hand, according to REM, a sexual act is a completely private event that cannot be related to the nature of information related to political life, which by definition is a public issue, so it is a violation of the article of the Rulebook on the Protection of Human Rights.
That article stipulates that the media service provider is obliged, if when publishing certain information, to use a video or photo of a certain person, event or phenomenon, to ensure that the video or photo, according to its nature and content, corresponds to the nature and content of the information being published.
Given that the published media content is of a highly personal nature, it is also inconsistent with the article of the Law, more closely regulated by the article of the Rulebook on the protection of human rights in the field of media services, according to which the media service provider is obliged to provide the media service in a manner that respects the personal dignity of users of the media service, participants in the program and persons to whom the published information refers.
The fact that the image of the person in the video in question is blurred is of no importance considering that the program unreservedly claims that it is Đorđe Miketić, and thus the content is contrary to the article of the Ordinance on the Protection of Human Rights, which stipulates that information from private life, i.e. personal records or voice recordings, cannot be published without the consent of the person whose private life the information concerns, states REM.
Although the sexual organs are blurred (blurred) in the video, REM indicates that it is quite visible that it is a depiction of an explicit sexual act, and the program content is therefore classified as pornography, with a reminder that the Law on Electronic Media and the Rulebook on the Protection of the Rights of Minors in the area of providing media services, the display of pornography is prohibited. The Council will decide on possible protective measures against TV Pink at the next session, in accordance with legal procedures, which will be held in the first half of December this year, the announcement stated.
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