It’s Starting To Happen…
Jančič’s days at Delo seem to be numbered
Just to follow up on Satudary’s post:
Yesterday, Laško brewery, the near-single stockholder of Delo newspaper, named a new Supervisory Board of the newspaper. The new head of the SB, Andrijana Starina Kosem, until two days ago state secretary (under-minister, if you will) at Ministry of economy announced that “certain editorial changes will be made”.
In plain-speak that means that Peter Jančič (a.k.a. The Satan) will soon be replaced.
No word on Danilo Slivnik, though - to be exact, the SB is in agreement with Slivnik’s short term plans, which include a new adpaper Total Tedna.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Hmm, sounds like Laško pivo owns half Slovenia: Union, Delo, didn’t you mention Mercator aswell?, … what else?
In this case, a party of beer lovers wouldn’t be as exotic anymore as mentioned here - but maybe such a name would be too obvious
May 29th, 2007 at 10:59 am
ROTFL! Good point!
And maybe I’ll post something special on Laško one of these days… It is quite remarkable, what they’ve achieved.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:27 am
[…] Perhaps even the fact that (while they were good chums) Janša controlled Delo daily via Laško brewery, had a cooperative supervisory board, a cooperative CEO (Danilo Slivnik) and an even more cooperative Editor-in-Chief (Peter Jančič)? You see, politicians all over the world find it hard to resist the urge of subjugating the media. Slovenia is no exception. It never was. Even the LDS is not without sin in this department. Janša was right on one point - that media cartels were established under LDS and we still feel the effect today. However, that does not make him any less responsible for media pressures that were (and apparently still are) exerted under his tenure. But are big bad media being accused of? […]
December 12th, 2007 at 11:32 am
[…] d) Pro-government journalists have a one-on-one with the PM (no counter-arguments allowed) or they invite journalists who criticise the government to their talk shows and they try do discredit them (contarty to the unwritten code that a journalist will never attack another journalist as long as they both do their job professionally) After three years the media and journalists finally took a stand against continous rape by the government (with a not-so-little help of opportunist capitalists who smell a change in power), which is of course suddenly suffering from a bad case of amnesia and basically claims that time started with Danilo Slivnik and Peter Jančič being removed from Delo daily. Nothing is being said about Jančič and Slivnik (the former being a stooge for the latter, both doubling as governmental hench-men) running out half of journalists of Sobotna Priloga (Delo’s most read Saturday supplement), of recalling journalists on foreing posts home just because they didn’t report in line with government’s foreign policy (I didn’t even know we have one!), of the foreign minister boasting that if there is something not printed in the papers, he’ll have it printed (or else…), of articles being rewritten by Jančič to the extent of being unrecognisable to their original authors, etc, etc… As I said, all of the above makes the pressures exerted by the political left (while it was in power) look like a picnic. Although their achievement are not to be diminished, either. I will refrain from ranting about how FM frequency were distributed and then re-accumulated by friends-of-friends, with the watchdog being as toothless and impotent as a 90-year-old siphylitic patient with Alhzeimer’s - I am, afterall, highly biased on that matter (which don’t mean I’m wrong, but still ). Instead, we can remember all the brouhaha about the government of Janez Drnovšek buying a jet plane and the not being entirely truthful (i.e.: they lied) about the price. […]
June 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
[…] radio and television, increasing government influence over both institutions and even before Janez Janša struck a deal with Boško Šrot and Igor Bavčar to sell them a controling share of Mercator to Laško Brewery and Istrabenz to […]