US EditionCT News Chief Mrzena Allegedly Secretly Influenced the Election of a New Director
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Head of news Petr Mrzena was supposed to send a message to several councilors just before Wednesday's election of a new director general, asking them not to vote for Milan Fridrich, the current program director of ČT. Aktuálně.cz reported this. When Fridrich answered questions from councilors about personnel changes in the news management before the election, he said that "nobody has anything certain forever." According to the server, Mrzena cou…
Prague - Employees of the News and Current Affairs Department of Czech Television (ČT) have written a letter to the ČT Council protesting against the claims about the imbalance of news coverage and the incompetence of editors, which were made on Wednesday during the hearing of the candidates for the position of the general director of ČT. They described them as untruths that they felt the need to point out, without intending to influence the ele…
Text messages sent by the head of news at CT Petr Mrzena to several councilors not to vote for one of the finalists for program director Milan Fridrich cannot, according to the chairman of the CT Council, Karel Novák, influence the election of the new CEO of the television. However, according to him, the clash of two top managers threatens CT itself and he considers it extremely irresponsible to play with the volatility of news three months befo…
ČT news director Petr Mrzena confirmed that he urged councilors not to vote for Milan Fridrich. He was reportedly angered by the criticisms of the editorial staff. The candidate for head of television Fridrich stands by his words. ČT management is also reacting to the current situation.
Czech Television's news chief and unsuccessful candidate for the post of director general, Petr Mrzena, confirmed that he had yesterday addressed some members of the Czech Television Council not to vote for Milan Fridrich. "I have been against false games and tricks for years, which is why I could not remain silent," he told Deník N.
The information was confirmed to the editorial staff of Aktuálně.cz by three independent sources, who wished to remain anonymous. The editorial staff of Aktuálně.cz also has a screenshot of one of the mentioned text messages. Mrzena was thus demonstrably trying to influence the election of the director of ČT. We were unable to find out how many councilors he sent the message to, but given the distribution of power, it is likely that he addressed…
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