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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 have the president on the line

Vucic invited Trump as a guest, as soon as possible, although we do not know if he promised to come. Everything will be in order - from bread and scones to Ivica who will sing and prepare a new set of photos from the last meeting, like back in New York

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Curative against living mud

I have never seen a more senseless decision than three days of mourning in Vojvodina, while in the rest of Serbia it lasted only one day. Where exactly territorially do we stop grieving - when we cross the bridge in Beška or weep all the way to Banovac? Paradoxically, the viewers in Vojvodina have classical music and a changed program, while the national frequency channels are bursting with joy.

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Important things

In front of a relatively unknown interlocutor, in front of cameras, during haircuts, children, like actors in a play or defendants in court, told us a story of fear and uncertainty

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The economy of empathy - experiencing or experiencing

Conflict is shown instead of dialogue, aggression instead of tenderness. We have evidence for this thesis in all program segments, from reality shows to political debates to dramatization of sports events and weather forecasts. There is a constant trade in attention through the explicit display of violence

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Jiberization

Will you see the president's address in Dnevnik RTS while Pink or Informer is standing in the corner of the screen, since state officials are seen much more often on these channels, as guests of the morning program or the collegium in constant convocation

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Battery Alliance, Parliamentary and Global

In Minister Handanović's speech, all the statements of prolithium experts that you could hear and see at guest appearances in previous months were enumerated. Indeed, someone systematically and persistently fooled viewers with the same half-truths on all channels in turn

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Swamp ghost

The evil is obvious, banal, visceral, that world of elite prostitution, nouveau riche, corrupt police, angry rich and frightened poor is very quickly and easily exposed and shown in its cruelty

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Hunger Games

How to explain the unreal dichotomy in which the rosy gala party where Mitrović pours champagne like the Great Gatsby in the era of economic depression while politicians pose with the cheapest belch or two eggs without a guinea pig. It is particularly interesting to me that in the media we have reduced politics literally to food as a metaphor for survival. The gala/social concept instead continuously tries to convince us of several irrational assumptions

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Standouts and repeaters

You can't shut down the "megatrend", just as a minister of culture got burned when he tried to limit the broadcasting of reality shows on Pink. The new elite have their diplomas and their rosy reality world

Zeljko Mitrovic

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Thirty pink years

Sex, glamour, sensationalism and unlimited space for political propaganda enabled Mitrović to create a huge media conglomerate and become the most influential commercial media in the Balkans

Chief and responsible editor of Informer: Dragan J. Vučićević

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Informer für AfD im Rosići

All those experts, military retirees, Putinophiles, conspiracy theorists, people with nanowires, paid and unpaid analysts gathered at the biggest party where it was confirmed that Informer is today the epicenter of Vučić's propaganda, while Pink can only claim the flattering title of "opium for the people" "

TV maniac - In memoriam: Siniša Pavić

And now goodbye, maestro...

He created a universe primarily by working on characters, with actors, where one detail, such as Šojić's moustache, jacket or hairstyle, was the trigger to create a small masterpiece. That's actually what Siniša Pavić was, an alkar who knew how to hit "on Wednesday", as they say in his native Sinj, and put a mirror in front of Yugoslavs through small screens in which they recognized themselves.

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Information block for the medal

You could see RTS flaunting its viewership results during the Olympic Games, which is very reminiscent of the statements of Vučić and his government when they criticize the opposition for not building roads and kindergartens. The ratings have become some kind of measure of the quality of the RTS program, which was the only one that had the right to broadcast the broadcasts

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Long live France!

The opening of the Olympics in Paris in all its colorfulness is a celebration of freedom for which there is a constant struggle, unlike the landings at some of the earlier ceremonies, because they are always a mirror of totalitarianism

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Debate or diagnosis

For years past, practice has shown that in America, the final results in the polls after the TV confrontation of the candidates differ from the results of the presidential election by a maximum of three percent.

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When I grow up, I will be…

The entire history of our country, from Jakov Nenadović until today, is actually the history of the police, which always and unfailingly knew how to protect the government and not the state, always on the backs of the citizens. She never even thought that she was responsible for violating the rights of citizens, and she was fantastically able to ingratiate herself with any authority, offering her services

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Hooligans and patriots, duck or rabbit

Emotions exploded, the President saw off the football players, and in the commercials, selector Stojković sends an eagle with a hawk to call our first team players. Let's be clear, the eagle has an eagle on its head, not Pixie

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Addition and subtraction

What kind of future lies ahead for us today is really difficult to say, but the result has obviously been achieved, the Parliament managed to further distance us from our neighbors with whom we failed to establish normal relations, but it also deepened the divisions within Serbia

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Progressive noise in the election silence

Nis, its problems and people who deal with local politics are not seen on the public service or in the private media in Belgrade, nor is anyone from Belgrade interested in the local political scene. This is a message for politicians, but also for the media, for whom the world stops at the Ikea department store, as Dr. Milić once said

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Diabola

For years, Željko Mitrović has been trying to become part of the extremely privileged club of arms dealers. The profit is huge, the goods are sold even before we have time to produce them. In such circumstances, Mitrović and the PRDC do not need to invent flying cars, but desperately want to get into a group photo with Vučić, especially at military exercises

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Five years of "Having coffee with a psychologist"

Is euthanasia due to debilitating depression the final defeat of medicine and psychotherapy, a kind of surrender before the loss of the meaning of life and the feeling of redundancy so common in the modern world

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When the Music's over

No matter how hard the Swedish supervisors tried, the Eurovision Song Contest simply collapsed under the pressure of the gloomy geopolitical situation because, simply put, it was not designed for this kind of external pressure.

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Who stole Easter from us?

Even Željko Mitrović gave his epistle on the subject of eternal life and triumph over death, in a short but unclear parable about "surrendering to the stronger". I confess that I am not worthy of the depth of his thought

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Why?

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No signal area

Unlike the demolition video game, the footage from the scene is absolute horror, whether it's pulling the victims, alive or dead, from the rubble or footage of the wounded and injured being brought to makeshift hospitals.

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Here I am among mine

With the appearance of TV Informer, neither fake analysts nor quasi-experts are needed anymore. We just need to turn on the cameras and fire up

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Find me

Our collective state is one of uncertainty and fear for the life of little Danka, which is grafted on by threats of imminent war