Prime Minister Edi Rama considers the information published in the Italian Rai3 television report two weeks ago to be unverified facts.
In his weekly podcast, this time with the host of the Opinion show, Blendi Fevziu, Prime Minister Rama said that a scourge of today’s journalism is the failure to verify facts.
According to him, the Rai3 report that hit Albania would not have been broadcast a few years ago, because the principles of journalism would have been applied.
Prime Minister Edi Rama: The other blow that is now becoming more and more fashionable, the case with Rai3 would not have happened in the past to make a report without any verification of the things they said.
Journalist Blendi Fevziu: However, the Rai3 journalist has claimed that he stands by the things he said and will release the report, because for me it was intolerable and unfair that a warned report should not be released, at least by making an argument that could to defer to verify the facts, may defer to involve the other party, but not to ignore a notice of a thing that was done.
Prime Minister Edi Rama: I do not know this part because I have not followed it in this aspect. But I know that what happened would not have happened a few years ago, that is, to make a show where you talk down people who are alive and are public figures, have a responsibility before everyone and not ask for their version of events or not to verify what is said about them…
Journalist Blendi Fevziu: …if they were referring to the Albanian media in their central part and all the things they had released, it is not that they were not published in the Albanian media.
Prime Minister Edi Rama: This is another part of the conversation that I don’t want to dwell on, but actually they were not referred to, but they were all things taken from here.
Journalist Blendi Fevziu: But a media can refer to local media.
Prime Minister Edi Rama: Agreed, but the moment you receive from another source a piece of news or a set of “facts” that are problematic and you don’t even verify them, and on the other hand, you repeat the same victims of those you received. without verification, this would not have happened before. And the culminating part was the denial of the fact that in the meantime the answers they had asked for, received, and not published, but to say that we don’t have them…
