Catalan public media defend their ‘plurality and veracity’
Directors of Catalan public media say that "the threat of a takeover" attacks “citizens’ rights to have truthful, objective, plural and balanced information”
The directors of the three Catalan public media outlets TV3, Catalunya Ràdio and the Catalan News Agency (ACN) held a joint press conference to defend Catalan public media’s work before Spain’s takeover. Vicent Sanchis (TV3), Saül Gordillo (Catalunya Ràdio) and Marc Colomer (the Catalan News Agency) defended the “plurality and veracity" of their work and asked to continue working “normally”.
In a statement read by public media workers in eight languages (Catalan, Spanish, Aranese, Basque, Galician, French, German and English), they stated that "the threat of a takeover" of the Catalan public television, radio and agency is a "direct attack" on citizens and "violates their rights to have truthful, objective, plural and balanced information", which are the "fundamental rights of any democracy". The three directors agreed that the “takeover" is "unacceptable" within the framework of the European Union.