Will independent and professional journalists still be allowed to sit in cafes and walk on sidewalks? Is Serbia really condemned to the North Korean model of information - the cult of personality of the great leader, the hunt for "enemies and traitors"? Sunday is a great day to say no to all of this
The attack on the "Radar" journalist Vuk Cvijić focused on several neuralgic points of today's Serbia. The first is certainly the ubiquitous violence. The second is the inviolability of the tabloid regime's tooth-crushing fist. The third is the misery and misery of the institution, so no one knows whether the attack on our colleague will have an adequate epilogue. Fourth – regime hypocrisy as a measure of honesty. And the fifth - the thorn in the side of public life.
The Wolf wanted none of this. A quiet and modest journalist, he was just passing through Kosovska Street and became a case. But the regime opinion makers it is not enough that the director of "Serbian Telegraph" knocked him to the pavement with his fist - those same tabloid machines for grinding live human flesh are now mocking Vuko and turning him from a victim into an attacker.
Will Minister of Information Dejan Ristic react properly? It's a small chance. Maybe after the election, maybe not - it depends on the political situation. For now, he expressed strong concerns and that would be it.
Attacks on journalists have a particularly dark dimension in Serbia. It is known that the accused for the liquidation of Slavko Ćuruvija were acquitted in a process with a whole series of magical decisions of higher instances; it is known that the murderers of journalist Milan Pantić in Jagodina were never discovered; it is known that the attempt to kill the late member of our editorial staff Dejan Anastasijević and his family with hand grenades has not yet been solved.
However, all this does not in the least prevent the government from the very top to the lowest echelon from demonizing professional and independent journalists every day, stabbing them on the back, insulting them and endangering them with threats from a position of power. The number of attacks is increasing, and Serbia is constantly sinking on the lists of media freedom.
In this context, kanda has become quite acceptable to the tabloid director broke down with the fist of Vuk Cvijić because he did not like some of his lyrics. The same goes for the tabloids to launch a campaign of outright lies and deception. The prosecution is pretending to be dead. The government does not see a problem in any of this anyway, and frightened citizens mind their own business.
Will we really be hunted in the streets in accordance with the black-humoured journalistic saying? Is Serbia really condemned to the North Korean model of information - the order of the personality cult of the great leader, the order of the hunt for "enemies and traitors", and again the order of the personality cult... How long does it take for lies to become truth and vice versa?
Dear reader, Sunday is a great day to say no to all this.
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