Bulgaria’s Public Media Workers Block Sofia Intersection, Demand Fair Pay
Hundreds of employees from Bulgaria's three major public media outlets - BNT, BNR, and BTA - staged a peaceful protest today
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"The best thing the media could have done is keep the car arsons out of their news coverage. If this news story hadn't been broadcast all the time, they wouldn't have set those cars on fire. If you hadn't been doing that there would have been no arsons. The culprits always get caught eventually."
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov talks to reporters, accusing the media of spreading the news about the mysterious night-time car arsons in Sofia, thus, in his view, helping to encourage this type of crime
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