Article 30 of the Mass Media Act thus specified that the editor-in-chief of a public medium was appointed and discharged by the newspaper publisher or broadcast company subject to the prior opinion of the editorial board or representatives of the editorial board. Similarly, under Article 34, any essential changes in the editorial policy were subject to the opinion of the editorial board or their representatives.
Tako je v zakonu bilo zapisano, da javno glasilo ima odgovornega urednika, ki ga imenuje in razrešuje izdajatelj po poprejšnjem mnenju oz. zastopstva uredništva (30. člen zjog), in da je za bistveno spremembo programske zasnove potrebno pridobiti mnenje uredništva oz. zastopstva uredništva (34. člen zjog).