Public media boss sacked by parliament.

(From The Slovak Spectator)

MILOSLAVA Zemkova was the ninth director that Slovakia's public-service TV broadcaster had in the 19 years since Slovak independence. But her five-year appointment to manage Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS), the country's recently merged public-service broadcaster, was cut short by a secret ballot vote in June, after Smer party insisted that she be sacked for what it called her failure as director to inform the governing body of the broadcaster about the launch of a crucial tender. Zemkova, who oversaw the merger of Slovak Radio (SRo) and Slovak Television (STV) into a single broadcaster, responded that there were no legal grounds for her …