SIBENIK, Aug 28 (Hina) - Culture Minister Antun Vujic said on Tuesday that new media legislation relied on assumptions that a piece of information is not just a commodity, that the media must be autonomous, their ownership
transparent, and that media pluralism is of public interest.
SIBENIK, Aug 28 (Hina) - Culture Minister Antun Vujic said on
Tuesday that new media legislation relied on assumptions that a
piece of information is not just a commodity, that the media must be
autonomous, their ownership transparent, and that media pluralism
is of public interest. #L#
Addressing a Croatian Helsinki Committee on Human Rights (HHO)
Summer School in Sibenik, Vujic said the protection of the freedom
of the media implied that in the mass media Croatian citizens
realised the same rights as citizens in western Europe.
Vujic said that in securing the right to the availability of
information, one must take into account the need of protecting
privacy, i.e. protecting a person from media abuse.
A quality mass media system cannot be achieved with any sort of bans
but through institutional solutions which exclude media monopoly,
said Vujic.
He pointed to the need of passing legislation which will regulate
the activity of all sorts of media and amending laws on
telecommunications and state radio and television.
The HHO Summer School is attended by more than 100 human rights
representatives and Croatian and foreign media experts.
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