Media|According to the complaints, the episode of MTV’s documentary was pre-censored due to the discussion from the anonymous Jodel and Ylilauta discussion platforms.
Public the word council (JSN) has given to MTV the decision to be made about the case in which the leader of the Kurdish mafia street gang Milan Jaffin the interview was deleted Veitola.doc– from the documentary program. According to JSN, the channel did not present a journalistic basis for its decision.
According to the complaints, the episode of the documentary Street gangs and youth crime was pre-censored due to the discussion from the anonymous Jodel and Ylilauta discussion platforms. MTV announced that it would remove Jaff’s interview from the documentary and postpone the release of the entire four-part documentary series.
According to advance marketing, the episode was scheduled to be released on MTV Katsomo at the end of last December.
The first one according to the complaint, MTV’s documentary was journalistically justified, extensively backgrounded and critical, and its topic was socially significant. Also in the second complaint, the documentary was considered to be based on piety, journalistically justified and critical, and that the subject of the street gang phenomenon was socially significant.
According to another complaint, an advertisement had just been published about the program, which raised emotions. There were comments condemning the interview on the Jodel discussion channel and the Ylilauta discussion board, and the afternoon newspapers started to make a bigger fuss about them. On anonymous discussion boards, people were urged to send demands for the censoring of the interview to MTV, the complaint states.
According to the first complainant, MTV failed to resist pressure to prevent the release of the documentary. The complainant said that he was involved in the making of the episode as an expert, and neither he nor the makers of the documentary were consulted before the decision to delete the interview.
In its response, MTV explained that it did not want a single interview in the episode to distract from an important social discussion and the episode as a whole. That’s why the channel said it reached a solution that the episode will be edited.
In response, MTV’s channel director said that before the decision, MTV Uutisten’s editors-in-chief and the criminal justice department were consulted. No external stakeholders were consulted in the matter. According to MTV, consulting internal stakeholders is a normal practice in cases of program changes.
Helsinki the Court of Appeal considered in its June ruling in judgmentthat the story about the so-called Kurdish mafia or 47 was not about organized criminal groups.
Furthermore, it has been suggested that Jaff may be more of a figurehead than a gang leader.
In addition the local newspaper Sompio received the judgment to be passed due to the advertisement insert shared between the magazine.
According to JSN’s decision, the contents of the ad did not stand out enough from the magazine’s editorial material due to insufficient markings.
Evening newspaper again got from JSN acquittal decision skier Iivo from Niska about his news coverage. In a story published on February 25, the newspaper reported that Niskanen had reached out to his rival.
According to JSN, it was the newspaper’s interpretation of the controversial situation, not an essential factual error. The newspaper edited the story when the information became more detailed.
The complainant was Niskanen himself. According to the complaint, Iltalehti’s story was false and his request for correction was not responded to, despite the evidence he submitted to the newspaper refuting the story’s claim. Niskanen submitted a video of the incident to Iltalehti. According to Niskanen, the outrageous story also spread to other media and caused significant damage to his reputation.
JSN stated that the story was based on the reporter’s and cameraman’s own observations, which the reporter also sought to verify from the parties involved. Niskanen, accused of getting involved in the case, did not want to give the newspaper’s editor a comment about the day’s events.
According to JSN, the newspaper had no reason to suspect the other side of the events reached by phone Kalle Parantainen a statement that supported the findings and information of the magazine’s editor. Later in the evening, however, the source changed his story, according to Iltalehti.
Based on the material available to it, the Council cannot be sure of what happened in the goal area. Videos taken from the scene show the skiers confronting each other, but not exactly what happened between them. According to JSN, it was a disputed situation, the interpretation of which was not an essential factual error.
The JSN decided on the acquittal decision by votes of 9–4.
Also among others, Yle received from the council acquittal decision. In one part of the analysis essay on music, it was claimed that a famous piece of classical music could not be found on a streaming service. In reality, recordings of the work could be found. However, according to JSN, this was evident from the whole story, and it was not a material error.