Obuljen Koržinek: ‘Milanović systematically assaults institutions, he bowled over me along with his message’

Minister of Culture and Media Nina Obuljen Koržinek she stated on Tuesday that she become taken aback by the extraordinary ban on a journalist’s get right of entry to to the click convention of the President of the Republic Zoran Milanović adding that he systematically assaults institutions in the course of his mandate.

“I am taken aback by the message that Zoran Milanović is sending to journalists and the whole public through the choice to ban a journalist from Jutarnji List from monitoring the clicking convention within the President’s Office,” Obuljen Koržinek stated in a press launch.

‘He systematically attacks institutions’

She brought that the words he addressed to considered one of the largest Croatian publishers, calling them a “cartel” and expressing the view that journalists running at Hanza media aren't journalists for him, were equally terrible.

“During his mandate, President Milanović systematically attacks establishments, uses inappropriate vocabulary and encourages exclusivity and division in society. This form of assault on unbiased media from a function of energy deserves every condemnation,” said the minister.

Jutarnji list announced that they were denied accreditation on Tuesday with none clarification, i.E. That their journalist Krešimir Žabec become no longer allowed to attend President Milanović’s press convention.

‘It’s a cartel’

The president observed this by explaining that “it is not a media organisation however a cartel”, and his spokesman stated that the journalist became now not forbidden to return, but that he turned into not even invited.

“Because it’s now not a media agency, it’s a cartel. The government price range them, they haven't any disgrace, they arrange a gypsy wedding ceremony in Split, now not a Roma one. It’s now not a media outlet, whoever writes there is not a journalist for me,” Milanović said in response to the journalist’s query. Question why the journalist of Jutarnji listing become now not allowed to come.

The president of the Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND), Hrvoje Zovko, assessed this act as an unacceptable and unacceptable practice.