Biased and non-objective attitude of RIK in the main news
Statement by AKEL C.C. Spokesperson Stefanos Stefanou
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 3rd April 2020, Nicosia
After last night’s main news of the state-owned Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (RIK), AKEL once again raises RIK’s unacceptable and unethical stance in relation to the projection of the opposition’s positions and actions, and in particular of the main opposition party AKEL.
More specifically, in the main news programme announcement yesterday lasting approximately 1 hour and twenty minutes the statements of the General Secretary of the C.C. of AKEL on the Party’s proposals to solve the problems presented in Education, his statement on AKEL’s initiative that raised 20,000 Euros to provide economic assistance to the Research Centre of the University of Cyprus, as well as the statement of the Party’s Press Office commenting on the President’s statements were all completely ignored.
This isnt something new, but this phenomenon has intensified in a glaring way recently, on the apparent pretext of the pandemic.
The systematic discriminatory treatment of the opposition, and of the biggest opposition party, AKEL, by RIK in combination with the disproportionately big and eulogising coverage of the government runs counter to the mission and character of the Corporation.
And that’s precisely why we publicly denounce RIK.
RIK is a publicly owned and not a government channel. As a Corporation that operates with public money, that is to say with taxpayers’ money, and whose mission is to inform the citizens in a comprehensive way, it has an obligation to present in a balanced way all political positions so that citizens themselves can judge them.
AKEL is sending a protest letter to the Director General and Board of the Corporation on RIK’s unacceptable attitude.
