Harsh debate: Is red line crossed? - Ministry's reaction and tabloid's apology VIDEO

Namely, some of the tabloids have published front page stories of the arrested Ninoslav Jovanovic depicting torturing a kidnapped 12-year-old girl for days.
One tabloid had apologized to the girl, her family and the public, but the question certainly arises - where is the red line, why Ministry's reaction was missing, why it hadn't reacted earlier when the front pages published the details of the investigation for days, as well as photos of the girl found, how it happened that the information leaked from the prosecution and police?
"The ministry reacted very early and in a timely manner. Namely, we reacted on the day when the girl was found, and I, as secretary of state, asked all the media to pay full attention to the vocabulary and the way of reporting as we are talking about a minor who is in sensitive years and whose life has just begun", Aleksandar Gajovic, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and Information, told Prva TV.
He said that the ministry reacted on a second occasion when the media reporting turned towards sensationalism.
"Srpski Telegraf" is the only tabloid to have apologized for its front page yesterday, and its editor-in-chief Milan Ladjevic said that they had published details of Ninoslav Jovanovic's testimony "with the best of intent".
"First of all, we had well-intentioned criticism that it could upset family and part of the public, and we saw that part of the public was upset and it was fair to apologize. We did not intend to hurt the dignity of Monika and her family, her dignity was hurt by the monster and the judge who released the monster earlier. The media only offered information, a confession of the crime, so that it cannot turn out that he had just held her hostage. You know, various stories...

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