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Journalists ‘associations strongly condemn Ace Lukas’ sexist insults against the N1 journalist on Pink’s Hit Tweet program.
Journalists’ associations and the general public reacted harshly and condemned the more practical sexist insults that singer Aca Lukas launched against N1 journalist Zaklina Tatalović in a Hit tweet on TV Pink.
Photo: Media CenterAs stated by NUNS, turbo-folk singer Aleksandar Vuksanović continued with libelous and unsubstantiated attacks to which Tatalović was “exposed years ago by state officials and tabloid journalists just because it opens up topics and asks questions of public interest.”
The association noted that the show’s editor and host Verica Bradić, regardless of whether it is a tabloid television format, had to interrupt after Ace Lukas’ first sentence and remove him from the studio, noting that it is a sad fact that other guests did not react and they will fence. They are from the beastly statements of your interlocutor.
The other two guests, Aleksandar Šapić and Zoran Ćirjaković, fell silent and looked at the ground.
When asked why he didn’t react while Lukas insulted Zaklina Tatalovic, the SPAS president told Danas that he is not anyone’s lawyer, guardian, parent, or educator to react to.
– I do not enter into conflicts between other people, and especially I do not determine the way in which someone will respond to provocations. It is a matter of personal choice. Otherwise, I try to maintain my composure and decency even when others provocatively poison me. I never provoke others first, although I see that now it is fashionable to provoke first, then complain and become a victim. Secondly, I don’t recall ever reacting to anyone’s behavior on any show, so I don’t know why you expected me to react yesterday, Šapić points out to Danas.
The insults uttered on TV Pink by singer Aca Lukas were also condemned by the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS).
“Although the host of the program, Verica Bradić, tried to stop the chauvinistic attack of singer Aleksandar Vuksanović (Ace Lukas) against the journalist, Pink TV still bears part of the responsibility for what happened,” announced UNS. UNS asked all participants in public life not to insult journalists and recalled that everyone has the right to criticize the work of the media and journalists, but that “such insults cannot be justified with freedom of expression.”
TV N1 also strongly condemned the hate speech and insults sent by Aca Lukas in Hit’s tweet to Zaklina Tatalović.
“It is incomprehensible that a national channel allows vulgar and primitive insults of almost an hour in its program and does not interrupt a program that has completely turned into a confrontation with a journalist. The unusual inability of the experienced host of the ‘Hit Tweet’ show to stop such scandalous behavior, the voluntary participation of another guest Zoran Ćirjaković in the attacks on H1, as well as the remarkable silence of the third guest, SPAS leader Aleksandar Šapić, creates a bitter impression that the entire program Deliberately carried out, precisely with the plan and goal of a simple confrontation with the N1 journalist, Zaklina Tatalović, as well as with H1 ”, announced this television.
As they stated, there is no doubt that singer Aleksandar Vuksanović set the tone for almost daily attacks on H1 and its journalists, who come from government circles and pro-government tabloids.
“H1 demands the REM to condemn this abuse of the national frequency and immediately stop the conversion of televisions with national frequency into media tools for confrontations and attacks on other media and their journalists.” “H1 asks the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality to immediately discuss this scandal, in accordance with its competences, and the professional journalists’ associations, other media and non-governmental organizations that deal with the media to condemn the primitive insult from journalist H1, “the statement read.
It is added that H1 will report on this event to all relevant international organizations dealing with the media, including the International Federation of Journalists, the OSCE, as well as the competent bodies of the European Union.
NUNS: Lukas’ rhetoric is a continuation of Vučić’s
For NUNS, the kind of speech we hear at Pink is just a continuation of the rhetoric practiced by Aleksandar Vučić.
“We can interpret Lukas’s sentences as a more primitive and realistic version of the insults and insults that the president of the SNS and the Republic of Serbia made against journalists and the media on Friday night during a tour of the site of construction in Zemun, “stated NUNS. The association warned that the scale of the attacks and the pressure on journalists had long exceeded all limits, which had led to overt physical violence against them over the summer, and therefore demanded that the Electronic Media Regulatory Authority sanction to stations that incite violence in their programs on a daily basis. hate speech and intolerance.
Bradic: Abuse of the show by private conflict
The editor and host of the Hit Tweet show, Verica Bradić, pointed out to Danas that she didn’t like the whole situation on the show, and that’s why she reacted and interrupted Lukas. “I thought it was a way to protect the public space from actions that are not acceptable in principle, and that is the use of the program for an essentially private conflict. Let me remind you that Ace Lucas’s completely unacceptable reaction followed an unacceptable tweet, that is. the insult that Zaklina Tatalović inflicted on her, “notes Bradić, adding that it is irrelevant whether she is personally on someone’s side” and, if so, from whom. “
Journalists Against Violence Challenge Lucas’s Behavior
The group Periodistas contra la Violencia evaluates as unacceptable the behavior of the folk singer Ace Lucas on the Hit Tweet program on Pink Television. According to the Group in a statement, Lucas used unquestionably sexist insults against H1 Television journalist Zaklina Tatalović. Throughout the show, this singer, “with a previous history of violence against women”, constantly referred to the person of Zaklina Tatalović, insulting her appearance and dignity with her statements. “These attacks, followed by the humiliation of female journalists for their physical appearance, regardless of their professional abilities, with malicious or derogatory comments about their dress, are an example of attempts to discredit women in the media especially if they report on sensitive social and political issues. ” in a sentence. The group draws the attention of the editors and presenters of the programs that they are obliged to react more decisively to hate speech, because otherwise they are “accomplices that enable and promote this form of communication.”
Pašalić: Verbal violence on Pink
On Pink Television’s “Hit Tweet”, singer Aca Lukas insulted TV N1 journalist Zaklina Tatalovic in the most primitive way and demonstrated a demonstrative exercise of verbal violence in action, aware that neither he, nor the author and the host of the program, nor Pink as the announcer, “said the Protector of Citizens Zoran Pašalić. He warned that in recent months the attacks on journalists, especially women journalists, have not decreased, but, in addition, the insults and taunts of journalists have been They have become more frequent and brutal, and warn of growing intolerance and the impossibility of engaging in elementary dialogue in society. DD
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