Question and answer

Our country, is unfortunately, according to habit of reading daily newspapers,  in the end of the European list. In our country only around  30 percents of adult citizens are reading newspapers on a daily basis, and the total circulation of daily newspapers does not reach even million copies. (Rough) Estimates say that it is just around  800,000, and whether one likes that or not, around two thirds of that circulation fall into so-called tabloids. Otherwise, such participation of so-called tabloids is not only our peculiarity. That is so, more or less in all transitioning countries, as an inevitable consequence of expansion of space for media freedom, with all negative consequences it carries. 

The situation reminds us of the saying small pool full of crocodiles and asks the  question - what the government can and should do in relation to this? It isn't  too difficult to answer that. The task of the government isn't to evaluate press, to divide media into qualitative and non-qualitative ones, to qualify them as serious, or as  yellow journalism. Instead of that, it should and must, by constant increase of transparency of its own work and by expanding the space for accessing information it has available, create conditions for qualitative media operations. And to introduce into official system solutions that would eliminate possibility that behind media projects' operations shall hide dirty money laundering, or even uglier things, as well as the possibility to replace, using back door approach, old undesired monopoly with another, as well undesired one.Rodoljub Sabic- Commissioner for Information