The National Audiovisual Council decided to sanction Romania TV with three fines and a summons. In total, the station was fined 75,000 lei (15,000 euros) and a summons for disinformation, lack of balance, xenophobia and instigation in shows from December, writes Pagina de Media.
In the meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, the CNA analyzed the complaints for December broadcasts for Romania TV and decided to fine the news television with 60,000 lei, respectively 10,000 lei and 5,000 lei, plus a summons.
The summons was given for a December 8 prank, in which the USR-ists were called “rats”. “Next: Shattered at the vote, the USR rats are looking for new hideouts”, captioned the station in the show “Romania in 60 minutes”.
România Te Vede from December 13 was fined 5,000 lei for the lack of balance in the reports about the protests for justice in December. Among the headlines: “Who finances the street protests against justice”; “The internal document of the resisters: they organize the coup”; “Document of the resisters: attack on the constitutional order”; “How the resistance is organized to seize all justice”.
The fine of 10,000 lei was given to Romania TV for xenophobia from a material with the title “Asians bring us leprosy, Romanians – expelled from the country”, presented in the informative journal at 11:00 on December 14.
The station was fined 60,000 lei for the High Point and the Black Box from December, for misinformation and lack of balance in reports about Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. Moreover, during one of the shows, an investigation was resumed (as a retrospective) that targeted Bolojan and that had been sanctioned by the CNA in April of last year, with 30,000 lei, according to the discussions during the meeting, writes Pagina de Media.
Among the titles displayed: “Ilie Bolojan's secret group that wants to change the laws”; “The revelations that reveal the revolt organized by the judiciary”; “The network of resisters who planned the lynching of Lia Savonea”, “The network paid to maintain the revolt in the judiciary” (“The Climax”); “Dodgy businessmen lined up behind Bolojan”; “Soros' orders, what Bolojan must execute”; “The real estate network protected by Bolojan”; “The millionaire usurer brought by Bolojan to Bucharest”; “Sineches for which you resist take your neck”; “Organizations funded to manipulate Romanians” (“Black Box”).
