Babe!
Selska 112 a
10000 Zagreb
babe@babe.hr
Zagreb, August 15, 2011.
Reaction to the reaction of Anton Filić, president of the Executive Board of SNH
I will be brief. At the outset, I would like to immediately acknowledge that the members of BaBa and I personally know journalist Nataša Škaričić very well, but I would like to emphasize that we are not reacting out of friendly relations, but rather out of disgust at the content and style of the letter from the newly elected president of the Executive Board of the Union of Journalists (and I guess journalists) of Croatia.
First of all – someone who represents a union should be concerned with the rights of the workers in whose name they exist, not with protecting their own name and reputation. I don't know what message Nataša Škaričić sent, and I don't care. A person who did her job with the utmost professionalism and was also brave like few of her colleagues certainly has no reason to be sweet and modest, let alone diligent, when addressing an organization that claims to defend the rights of her profession, after several years of not receiving a salary.
It's not clear to me what the difference is whether someone pays the membership fee or not when it comes to a historic decision, a court precedent that paves the way for the protection of a large number of journalists with her status. Until now, they were completely unprotected.
When several hundred employees from HTV were laid off, we didn't ask them if they were our members. We weren't even interested in whether they supported our work at all. We reacted to a serious violation of the labor rights of many who didn't deserve it. The illegality of the previous contracts is a separate story. And then we came to SNH and wanted to do something together. Nothing happened. But that's not so important now.
What should be clear to little Perica is that 2011 is absolutely unacceptable. da predsjednik bilo čega napiše:”A ako je posrijedi tek novi fenomen utjecaja ženstvenosti kolegice novinarke na kvalitetu rada njezina presenzibilnog kolege – na što sluti jedan smušeno-romantizirani odlomak teksta – sumnjamo da će teoretičari medija pozdraviti tu premoć šarma nad činjenicama”. Uvoditi nečiju ženstvenost i šarm u priču o najgrubljem kršenju prava jedne novinarke, što je potvrdila i konačna sudska odluka, zahtijeva trenutnu ostavku i javnu ispriku kako novinaru na čiji se tekst reagira tako i novinarki Nataši Škaričić.
I jedna preporuka gospodinu Filiću – malo manje ego tripa, malo više zalaganja za prava danas jedne od najponiženijih profesija. I privatno – ne stavljajte slinu koja vama curi na tuđe obraze.
Sanja Sarnavka
