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Dragan Ilic

Dragan Ilić is a graduate psychologist and journalist. He worked at Radio and TV B92, then founded the Supermish production. He has been writing the "TV Maniac" column for Vreme since 2002. He has been the author and host of the morning program "Buđenje" for many years, and he has been working with his colleagues on the TV show "4 and a Half Men" for eight seasons. Married to his wife Živana and father of Danilo and Matija.

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We are ready for the end.

The TV phenomenon of the previous year is a kind of media contradiction. The government organizes marches that paralyze the suburbs of cities, the tabloids report on "hundreds of thousands of citizens" who are bothered by not being able to move freely, go to the maternity hospital and collect their pensions, then block them all over Serbia, where the only blockade is Ćaciland in front of the Parliament

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Hypocrisy and colorful costumes

It has been shown that the Eurovision Song Contest cannot be imagined without the influence of geopolitical currents, but not only in voting, but in the promotion or hybrid war of enemy countries. Today, these divisions can no longer be hidden or camouflaged, they are deeper and deeper and call into question the very essence of this competition, which is becoming a paradigm of the political relationship of power in Europe and the world.

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To each his own

Welcome to the wonderful world where there are no laws or they are applied selectively, to the world of wild construction, evident corruption, blind, deaf and dumb state administration and the world of forgiveness in which after one press conference of Aleksandar Vučić, the triumph of urban populism begins

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Portrait of Serbia in waiting

Two men on two chairs symbolize the downfall of our politics, because neither Bajatović's Russians nor Đurić's Americans are now friendly towards Serbia. Admittedly, according to facial expressions, Russophiles are more apathetic. The third chair, next to Đurić, is symbolically empty, which tells us that there is no hope that someone else, say the Chinese brothers, will help us. What else does the picture "quiet walk" say?

Today, all those Dilparians are still there, rattling their weapons, spreading hatred towards their neighbors.

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Fortress

What is actually the most terrifying realization for me since the first episode of the series whose name is in the title is the fact that all the characters from the political scene are still in power in Serbia today. Today, all those Dilparići are still there, rattling their weapons, spreading hatred towards their neighbors

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Bottom depth

The media in Serbia today resembles Haiti, where the government spread the belief that the dictator Pope Doc is the supreme voodoo healer whose spells you cannot escape. I don't know if the increasingly terrible examples of spreading hatred and evil mean that the end of this government is near, but I fear that we will have to heal for a long time from the hatred that has been sown

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Right angle

The title of the show is not only symbolic. He talks about that precision of analysis, in contrast to the everyday, decades-long distortion of a society in transition

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The smell of power

Maric's presence in the media will be the best indicator of whether or not something will fundamentally change in this country even after Vucic

The obituary of the truth is displayed on the board of Radio and Television of Serbia

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Thirty-five years of amnesia

Watching television in Serbia in the past three and a half decades can really be described as bleating at colorful doors. How else to understand the expectation of viewers to see and hear something new from the same actors on the political scene

In every country, on every public service, on all commercial televisions, the departure of Zdravko Shotra would be news as important as Khalid's funeral, but unfortunately that did not happen.

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State funeral

In the song "The Funeral of Two Slaves", for which he was stuck in prison, Branislav Nušić described how the government sometimes sends you off with honors, but can also consciously forget you, if you were disobedient

Radio and Television of Serbia

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Very, very important things.

If you had watched, dear courtiers, you would have seen and heard the most touching part of this boy's story, who was talking about his parents, their quarrels, which he might not have to listen to, so he thinks they love each other, but he thinks it is better that they divorce. Some other boy might have heard in his family how students are drug addicts and slackers or foreign mercenaries. There is no censorship in this show, children say what is important to them, in an atmosphere where no one will silence or judge them

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Afternoon circle

He who sings does not think evil! In accordance with its neutral policy, Serbia decided to participate in this year's edition of the Intervision festival in Moscow, which was revived as an alternative to the Eurosong, in which Russia was banned from participating. In the 1960s, this festival gathered performers from the "other" side of the Iron Curtain, and in the 1980s it self-extinguished, and today it has become the musical BRICS, that is, an attempt to find an alternative to the "collective West" in everything, as it is said on our TV channels.

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How I became a spy for the EU

In our country, a foreign intelligence agency insults and targets the media, journalists and students, and the government does nothing to protect its citizens and its integrity

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Iris at the Expo and other fairy tales

The Assembly of the Municipality of Temerin voted that arsenic is not a poison and thus solved the problem with the quality of drinking and cooking water. It is especially interesting that the notices that the water is not for use are posted in the strangest places like the local cemetery

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Small TV shopping

Minister Siniša Malo's supermarket came headlong or it broke like two balls for Tomi Momirović. To paraphrase Mimi Mercedes: when he puts on his running shoes, they end up saying he's broke

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The dark side of the force

I guess the existing weapons are not enough, neither the army, nor the police, nor the paramilitaries, nor the police, but the solution is coming from Pink. Željko Mitrović is trying to solve the problem in his own way, because if someone annoys him now, he will disintegrate him with a laser, sorry, a photon beam

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Gender equal caning

"They threw concrete blocks, oysters, glass bottles and other objects at the policemen, endangering their lives and health. At that moment, the female person in the photo was hitting the members of the Gendarmerie with a metal rod, who used coercive means to repel the attack," the MUP claimed.

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State stroke

In the absence of other reality content, due to the summer vacation and collective annual vacation on "Pink", the government decided to satisfy the needs of hardcore viewers and sympathizers and took over that genre. That's how she exploited the health problem of Minister Glišić, made a case even out of the unbuttoned shirt of Minister Dejan Vuk Stanković, but the most intense reality show this week still takes place in Liman

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Love without a happy ending

Each of the relationships in "Elite" begins with a short period of courtship, then the actors have sex and then several weeks of arguments and insults follow. After that, optionally, either everything starts from the beginning or the partners change

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Nole against the machinery

All our champions are waiting to be dragged through the same tabloid mud if they do not work in Vučić's team. So Bodiroga became a traitor and conspirator

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Summoning the devil

The collective frustration of Thompson's right-wing and ultra-right-leaning audience is confusing. Especially since the Croatian nationalists fulfilled all historical plans - from an independent state, through membership in the EU and NATO to the reduction of the number of Serbs to the level of a statistical error

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Container

This piece of urban furniture became a symbol of the citizens' protests in the previous days. In Duško Kovačević's play, it has five stars, it serves as a canteen, forced accommodation and a solid fuel stove, so to speak a fire pit. In addition, the container is a symbol of rejection of unnecessary things, social inequality, and recently it is the main means of temporary traffic regulation during blockades. During student protests, great care is taken about general hygiene, so the end of each gathering was a symbolic and literal cleaning of public areas. In contrast, supporters of the government left mountains of garbage for the municipal services. 

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Exit and referendum

In the announcement of the new media association, we received a list of participants in a huge reality show, in which the Big Boss puts someone in the Elite, someone in the Farm, someone to drag opponents through the mud - but they all have the same goal: Vučić's favor

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Cherries, strawberries and pitting

In the third address to the public, the President sat on the terrace, which he likes the most, because he is above the people, and on the terrace, it was as if he had won a gold medal at the Olympics.

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Hunger, thirst and sardines

The most bizarre announcement of the hunger strike belongs to Miloš Pavlović, "a student who wanted to study". He asks that people love and appreciate him, together with the rest of Pionirski Park