Charlotta Friborg, responsible publisher for SVT News and Morning Studies, responds with surprise to the proposal from SD that public service managers should be called in to the Culture Committee to respond to criticism for lack of impartiality, and the criticism of the report on juvenile delinquency in a section of Morning Studies.
How do you respond to the proposal to call public service managers to the Culture Committee to respond to criticism of impartiality?
- With surprise.
Aron Emilsson (SD) says there is growing criticism for lack of impartiality in public service. Do you share that photo?
- I notice that public service has become part of a political debate that is currently intense. I have worked for decades in privately owned newspapers and am very used to discuss editorial decisions and publications, says Charlotta Friborg.
- The criticism does not differ so much, but the difference is that for public service there is a special opportunity to have both impartiality and objectivity tested - within the framework of the Review Board.
According to Emilsson, the interview about juvenile delinquency in the Morning Studio was a clear example of one-sidedness in SVT's reporting. How do you view that criticism?
- I am proud of our reporting that has been versatile. We have interviewed victims, relatives of perpetrators, researchers, experts, police and we have claimed responsibility from politicians.
Is it common for political parties to discuss individual elements of Parliament?
- No.
In a vote at Thursday's meeting of the Culture Committee, the proposal was voted down.