The behavior of your employee Tsantsarova is absolutely unacceptable for me, not at all it is subservient to professionalism, but it is tendentious, condescending, demeaning and suggests to me pettiness and a lack of integrity and respect. Also, I perfectly understand the meaning of freedom of speech and I am absolutely in favor of a person being able to express himself freely in public, especially if he is a journalist. But, of course, there are also states such as dignity, honor, respect, professionalism, and also logic.
This is stated in a letter from ITN leader Slavi Trifonov to bTV.
Here is his full position:
Today I sent a letter to BTV. I thought and thought and decided to share it with you:
I perfectly understand the fact that BTV is a private television and you have the absolute right to publicly express your biases, sympathies and express both the personal position of the presenters of BTV and the position of the management of BTV. This is an absolute fact and it is your right.
Also, I perfectly understand the meaning of freedom of speech and I am absolutely in favor of a person being able to express himself freely in public, especially if he is a journalist. But, of course, there are also states such as dignity, honor, respect, professionalism, and also logic. And let's not pretend that I didn't work for BTV for 19 years, I didn't make more than 5 thousand shows and I didn't bring BTV a huge number of viewers, authority, viewer interest and, above all, money.
The behavior of your employee Tsantsarova is absolutely unacceptable to me, it is not subject to professionalism at all, but it is tendentious, philandering, humiliating and suggests pettiness and a lack of integrity and respect. The fact that she and the one sitting next to her allow themselves to treat some of their guests like this is acceptable to you, but not acceptable to some of your guests.
For me, such behavior is unacceptable, and I put an end to my people visiting Tsantsarova and her partner, whose name I keep forgetting. I believe I have been more than clear.
Slavi Trifonov