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The president-general director of SRTV, Doina Gradea, reacts to the scandal of the New Year’s Eve program on TVR 1. She affirms that she did not intervene in the proposals of the program for New Year’s Eve and recalls that the show “Saturday Night Live” is in the United States. who ridicules, lampoons, laughs at anyone important and well-known, from the Hollywood star to the politicians. “She responds to USR-PLUS MP Iulian Bulai, who demanded her resignation, and says, if everyone is good at joking , not all are good at satire.
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>, is the opinion of Deputy Bulai. - I find it hard to believe that he doesn’t know what shit means, but if it still makes sense to him, I can tell him that shit is one thing and satire is another.
- If someone (maybe Mr. Bulai, I don’t know, I don’t know him) is good at satire, not everyone is good at satire. For this reason, for the New Year’s Eve program, TVR turned to two famous comedians, Mugur Mihăescu and Radu Pietreanu: to do comedy. So humor, satire, comedy, not gossip, ”says Doina Gradea in a press release sent Monday.
The head of SRTV assures that she did not intervene in the proposals of TVR programs for New Year’s Eve and assures that decades of experience in television have taught her that censorship does not lead to anything good.
- “TVR officials who decided to include this show on New Years Eve take over this show and based on audience figures, it turns out that it was not a wrong choice. In fact, now, as of this writing, the press , Facebook, the online environment is effervescent on this issue, which, oddly enough, is good for Romanian television, “says Doina Gradea.
The general president of SRTV also assures that “Televisión Nacional has been with the authorities since the beginning of the pandemic, in the front line in the fight against the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and that you should not avoid laughing at this issue.
“Nothing is taboo when it comes to humor,” he says, comparing it to NBC’s famous Saturday Night Live.
- “There is a program in the United States called Saturday Night Live that ridicules, lampoons and laughs at everyone who is important and known, from Hollywood stars to politicians. And we look at the United States with admiration and we would like to do television like them. Does that contradict Mr Deputy Bulai? ”, Shows Doina Gradea.
It also says that this New Year’s program did not violate Law 41/1994, according to which Romanian Television operates, nor audiovisual legislation, and “public television is not a subject of political debate – in the past, politics has been witness of the accumulation of debts more than 150 million euros The good thing is that, for three years, this problem does not exist and TVR is obtaining a real benefit.
- “From your point of view, Mr. Iulian Bulai, there is something that caught my attention, something serious.
> – your sentences, starting with the imperative tone and down to its essence, betray the words of a little dictator. - The direct threat of an institution head by a parliamentarian is an unprecedented and very dangerous situation. More clearly, it is the worst political attack on the editorial independence of Romanian television. For what, what is the purpose? You will “clean” (I borrowed the term you used) all the members of the PSD of TVR; Before asking how you will do this, I have other curiosities: how will you identify the members of the PSD, with what methods? And what other media institution will follow after TVR? Mr. Bulai, do you have any idea what you’re getting into here?
- In short, you must reread and reflect on the seriousness of your words, and if you admit that you were wrong, I will accept your apology. But I will be surprised if a man as young as you wants to reintroduce censorship. But be careful, don’t say I didn’t tell you, censorship can do great services to humor and can turn against whoever dictates it, ”adds Gradea.
USR-PLUS deputy Iulian Bulai, who is also the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Committee on Culture, Art and Media, said that TVR 1 had on New Year’s Eve “a program full of gossip about everything which means a pandemic, “he said. announcing that on Tuesday he will have an informal meeting in Parliament with the president of the NAC, Monica Gubernat, to offer a point of view on this situation, and Bulai also demanded the resignation of Doina Gradea.
We remind you that Dorina Rusu, member of the National Audiovisual Council (CNA) announced this Saturday that she filed a complaint after the “grotesque show” offered by TVR on New Year’s Eve and accused public television of instigating non-compliance with the anti-coronavirus protection regulations .
“On New Year’s Eve, public television gave a grotesque spectacle, which violated not only the laws of good taste and common sense, but also the audiovisual legislation,” said Dorina Rusu in a statement, after national television. chosen to broadcast on New Year’s Eve the program “Nochevieja en mi casa”, filmed in the bar owned by Mugur Mihăescu in the Old Center. Among the guests was Dan Bittman, who this fall accused authorities of “getting out of his stomach” the number of victims caused by Covid-19.
Dorina Rusu says that, in the TVR program, “it is not only about bad jokes directed at the authorities that handle the crisis generated by the pandemic, but that public television, at a time of year when many people he watches television, he mocks the anti-coronavirus protection rules, even instigates their non-compliance ”.
“In a time as complicated as the pandemic, television and radio stations must understand not only their freedoms, but also their responsibilities, and public television is all the more responsible since it is financed with public funds. “But this was still one of the not rare moments, sadly, when TVR abandoned its public mission,” says Dorina Rusu.
According to Paginademedia.ro, the agreements entered into by TVR with Vacanța Mare amount to almost 50,000 euros.
“These are several contracts, concluded separately, at the beginning of December, with Mugur Mihăescu, Radu Pietreanu and their production company, R&M Production”, states the aforementioned website.
Contacted by Paginademedia.ro, Mugur Mihăescu stated that the proposal for New Year’s Eve came from TVR and that the program was filmed in the Old Center pub, in St. Patrick. “It was a negotiation, as we consider it our value in the market,” Mugur Mihăescu said.
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