Bestseller, which is behind the planned tower at 320 metres in the Fires, asked in a public meeting in October Ikast-Brande Municipality, that the cameras and microphones were turned off.
It appears by a access to mail correspondence between the Bestseller and the municipality, writes Politiken Urban spaces.
It ended the matter, had wanted. Before the meeting started, asked the municipality of the attending journalists to turn off cameras and microphones during the meeting.
A decision that undermines the democratic process of urban development, believes Roger Buch, chief scientist in social science at the Danish school of Media and journalism.
– When you do not give the press the best possible opportunities to cover the case, not least for the many citizens that can not participate, it helps to undermine the possibilities of that broad facts of the case out, said Roger Buch to Politiken, Urban space.
for the newspaper, Politiken, Urban space confirms the Bestseller, that the desire came from them:
– Since there is still a long way to that project is a reality, and can therefore reach to be many things in relation to the final project, we had however the desire to the municipality, that it remained a public meeting where all interested parties were properly informed, and was not a press conference, where we had fires or sell our project. This desire was complied with by the municipality, and it was agreed to in good order with the journalists who were present on the day, was that there were no rolling cameras during the meeting, write the matter in a mail.
Regardless of that Bestseller uttered the desire, the municipality was to come to the same decision, protests Karina Kisum Jensen, planchef in Ikast-Brande Municipality:
– Bestseller gave to us stated that they would be bored of rolling cameras during the meeting’s proceedings. Whether Bestseller had had this attitude or another, it is my assessment that Ikast-Brande Municipality had taken the decision not to have the rolling cameras and microphones during the borgermødet, writes Karina Kisum Jensen in an email to Politiken, Urban space.
