Czech Tv (ČT) introduced the top of the 168 hours program on Thursday in its press launch with the truth that the overall director of ČT Jan Souček and the information and program administration agreed on its termination.
In keeping with the press launch, the presenter and dramaturg of this system Nora Fridrichová will keep within the Kavče Horá along with the reporters of the editorial employees of 168 hours. Within the coming days, it will likely be about their involvement within the manufacturing of tv journalism.
Fridrichová herself commented on the top of “her” program a number of hours later on the X community: “I am very sorry that 168 hours is ending, I discovered yesterday and I did not anticipate it. I’m grateful that I may take part in them for 18 years. This system was often within the TOP 10, it was one of the crucial watched journalistic applications on ČT and loved your everlasting favor. Thanks!”
In its report, Czech Tv wrote that this system had beforehand “handled criticism from the CT Council, which has repeatedly acknowledged violations of the CT Code in current instances.”
“The occasions of the previous few days additionally contributed to the ultimate determination to finish the manufacturing of the 168 hours program, which sadly additionally impacts this system and which not solely damages this system itself, but in addition doesn’t put Czech Tv in gentle,” mentioned the CEO of CT Jan Souček.
In keeping with the press launch, this system deviated from the initially meant format of a news-publicist program. He was at all times imagined to map the occasions of the previous week. “The preparation of the 168 hours program was accompanied by more and more frequent inside editorial disputes concerning the content material and processing of studies,” mentioned Petr Mrzena, director of stories and journalism.
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“The 168 hours program has been begging for cancellation for a very long time, as a result of it has too typically interfered with politicians, who understandably didn’t prefer it. However that may in all probability not matter, that can be the function of public service, if the criticism or irony is justified. Lately, nevertheless, he has more and more broadcast tendentious studies, and these can’t actually be hidden below commentary or glossing over the occasions of the previous week,” mentioned ČTK media professional Jan Potůček. “If we add to that the truth that the brand new CEO of ČT doesn’t need to have issues with the ČT Council, akin to his predecessor had, logically this step needed to occur. The query stays, what sort of stress will this trigger within the editorial workplace of stories and journalism. I do not suppose the creators of 168 Hours will cross it by in silence,” he added.
In keeping with the professional journalist of the Digizone server Filip Rožánek, the brand new tabloid denial of the case of the previous editor-in-chief of journalism Marko Wollner apparently contributed to the top of this system. “I might say that the tabloid denial of the Wollner case, which she delivered to gentle once more @JulieMontek (Lucie Hrdá), the response of Mark Wollner’s spouse on the Život v Česko server and Mark Wollner himself on Expres, after which the finale within the type of Nora Fridrichová’s response in Blesk,” he mentioned on the community X.
Prior to now, Fridrichová was accused of bullying subordinates, however this was not confirmed by the investigative fee of CT. The presenter, however, accused Wollner of sexually harassing feminine colleagues two years in the past. In current days, the alleged protocol with the statements of witnesses in opposition to Wollner, together with Fridrichová, turned public. It additionally accommodates a recording of her dialog with Wollner with profanity and innuendo.
