The Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) urged on May 27 all television stations with national and regional coverage, especially the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation and the Radio Television Vojvodina, to follow the example of TV N1 when producing "election chronicles."
BIRODI proposed that, instead of propaganda content, TV broadcasters should put representatives of election tickets on air, who would reply to questions that could help the people decide whether and who to vote for at the parliamentary, provincial and local elections in Serbia on June 21.
On May 17, BIRODI requested the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Media (REM) to prevent "party cameras" – the clandestine advertising of election tickets in the election segments of prime-time news, in which the contenders, instead of a statement, deliver their election propaganda video-content, which is not the product of the broadcasting medium.
The report which BIRODI published on the internet, reads that this was in violation of the Law on electronic media, which regulates that they must provide free, true, objective, complete and timely information.
The editors' board of N1 has decided not to broadcast promotional material of participants in elections during their news broadcasts. Instead, as of June 3, they will publicly ask questions every day, which the contenders would reply to in the form of recorded statements that would be broadcast by the station.
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