The Ministry reacts strongly: “The bottom of media immorality and shamelessness”

The ministry has announced that it will impose all the measures within its competencies and expects a prompt and determined reaction on the part of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
"The Ministry of Culture and Information assessed with the deepest disgust that those headlines have stepped over the boundaries of inhuman behavior towards a minor and her parents, who have suffered too much for media vultures with no scruples to dig deeper into their wounds contrary to the law. This is a point on which society has to stand united and in solidarity and condemn these media misdeeds, which could otherwise turn into pre-civilization ethical dullness and immorality," the ministry statement said.
Some of the tabloids have published front page stories of the arrested Ninoslav Jovanovic depicting torturing a kidnapped 12-year-old girl for days.

"An example of what the media shouldn't do"

President of the Government Coordination Body for Gender Equality, Zorana Mihajlovic, condemned the publication of details about the abduction and violence committed against a 12-year-old girl in some Serbian dailies, stating that this was "an example of what the media should not do".
She called on the media to help combat violence, "not to prolong it."
"The examples of today's front pages are an example of what the media should not do because publicizing the details of the abduction and violence suffered by the girl actually prolongs violence against her even after the girl was found and her abductor arrested", it was stated from the cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
She said that the media "should be partners in fighting violence and not prolonging the violence against the victim by sensational...