Several critical voices have been raised against the fact that the company's CEO Cilla Benkö has not been available to answer the DN journalists' questions that followed the review and that Sveriges Radio has trivialized the information presented by the review.
One of them is Jan Scherman, media debater and former TV4 manager and employee at SVT who, in a debate article in DN, asks the question whether SR's CEO and board can really stay on:
"SR's mistakes in security management have increasingly become a management problem through the company's own crisis management.
In any other company, the media would have raised the question of the management's and the board's ability to remain in office," he writes, among other things.
"A media manager should appear for an interview"
The former media ombudsman Ola Sigvardsson is also critical.
He is acting media ombudsman in matters relating to DN, as the regular media ombudsman Caspar Opitz worked at DN for a long time and is therefore a tough guy.
- The opinion of media managers should be such that you choose to be interviewed when you receive criticism.
It is both natural and reasonable, says Ola Sigvardsson to Kulturnyheterna.
During the review, DN's journalists have made repeated attempts to interview Cilla Benkö, who did not come forward but returned with a rebuttal.
Ola Sigvardsson has seen similar tendencies in those in power who decline interviews and instead formulate an email response to get away.
- It has increased.
But it is not particularly common for a senior media manager not to allow himself to be interviewed when his own media is criticized.
Criticism of the Journalists' Association
The president of the Association of Journalists, Ulrika Hyllert, has previously directed sharp criticism at Sveriges Radio after the head of security, Anna Svedberg, wrote in an email to DN that she may report the newspaper to Säpo due to the review.
"Sensitive security issues need to be reviewed without someone starting to talk about press freedom violations, especially when it's a media company that should know better before commenting so carelessly," Hyllert wrote earlier in a post on Facebook.
Kulturnyheterna is looking for Sveriges Radio's CEO Cilla Benkö.