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A total of 1,056 different publications, television, Internet portals, radios and news agencies operated in the country, according to the updated media monitoring site STIRNA.info.
According to the TILS report, the number of politicians and public officials and their spouses who control the media remained almost unchanged during the year: in 2019 there were 44 of those people and the number of controlled media decreased by a fifth, from 101 to 83.
“I would very much like the media to keep up with the times and act according to the highest standards of transparency, publishing information on the interests of owners, managers and editors-in-chief, their rules of conduct and their statuses. annual financial statements. “, says Sergey Muravyov, director of TILS.
Last year, eight members of the Seimas and ten members of the Council from Ignalina, Kelmė, Plungė, Radviliškis, Tauragė, Telšiai, Ukmergė, Utena, Zarasai districts and Vilnius city municipalities participated in the media. There is also a head of the municipal administration department, a MEP and 13 politicians who had previously stood in the elections.
The media was controlled by ten spouses of those who last year held the post of member of the municipal council – there were five of them, and the post of member of the Seimas – three. The media was also controlled by the wives of a mayor and an official.
Last year, the media was dominated by five representatives of the Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Union (seven measures) and the Labor Party (23 measures), four representatives of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (six measures) and the Electoral Action Polish from Lithuania. -Union of Christian Families (four measures).
The ruling media also included two representatives from the Lithuanian Liberal Movement (three measures) and two representatives from the Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union (two measures), one each from the Order and Justice Party (three measures), and the Party Popular of Lithuania. (two measures). and the Freedom and Justice Party (two instruments).
One person each occupied the media, which ran with the public electoral committees “Others” (three measures), “R. The Šimašius team “To Vilnius, we are proud of!”
Since 1996, a total of 55 politicians and officials have owned 93 media outlets. During this period, the spouses of politicians and officials (there were 12) owned a total of 25 media.
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