The weekly paper (WoZ) shall not have access to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020 in Davos. According to the WEF, the notification of the accreditation was very late, it was not censorship.
As WoZ Co-editor-in-chief Yves Wegelin on Thursday to the news Agency Keystone SDA said, has adhered to the sheet the date for the accreditation. On the Morning of 30. October, a day before the deadline, I made WoZ a request by e-Mail, with the request for accreditation for the WEF the end of January 2020.
At noon of the 12th. November then came the answer that not all of the media would be admitted to the event. According to Wegelin is preferred by the WEF media, which also work together during the year with the organization.
The WoZ have checked in extremely late, a day before the expiry of the deadline for the accreditation, said Yann Zopf by the media office of the WEF, compared to Keystone-SDA. Due to this, we have found that the quota for the Swiss media was already full. This had nothing to do with censorship.
every Year, the WEF thousands of media requests and allows you to get the accreditation. For reasons of space, a quota of a maximum of 500 journalists was approved, with several journalists of a medium would be admitted.
imprint criticized decision
Already in the year 2012, the WoZ had not received the accreditation. At the time, had to move the WEF to media pressure and a political push towards a rethinking of how to imprint, the Association of journalists on Thursday. The newspaper was able to obtain in the year 2013, the accreditation for the following years.
The WEF according to the imprint, provides “no comprehensible reasons why the WoZ should the accreditation not received”. The Forum handle is arbitrary and the movement of his offensive against freedom of the press. For these reasons, miss cheap imprint this unjustified denial of Access. (nag/sda)
Created: 14.11.2019, 17:25 PM
