Local Informers are all over Serbia.
The host of the Collegium, Petar Popović, started hosting two shows, Puls Palanka on RTV BAP from Bačka Palanka and Puls Novi Sad on Novi Sad TV. Deputy editor of Informer Dejan Vukelic since the beginning of the year, he has also been editing Čačan TV Love Plus, on which he also has the show Report, the local replica of the Collegium. Valjeva's variant called Pretres on Television V5 is hosted by Andrea Veskov, also Informer's TV personality. And in Užice on TV 5, the editor of the Vaseljenska portal Vesna Veizović is in charge of the show Demontaža.
This team was joined by TV Mačva, which became part of the network of local media connected to the owners of Informer and Alo. With the new owners came a recognizable editorial concept that is already being applied in several cities in Serbia.
Šabac collegium is led by Nina Kuburović, Raskrinkavanje writes. In the text about her move from Belgrade to Šabac, entitled "TV Mačva took heavy artillery", published on the portal of this media company, Kuburović was described as "a sharp political analyst, lawyer and one of the most direct television personalities". This "heavy artillery", adds the media, has been targeting local opposition actors for ten days. Media such as Nova S, N1, and Podrinski have also been targeted on several occasions, which, according to Nina Kuburović, "exclusively promote what the blockaders are doing" and "try to turn citizens against their own country."
The money just keeps coming.
Photo: Screenshot / YouTube / TV MačvaTV Mačva is owned by the newly founded company Infomačva
Mačva TV, which, despite not having a clearly written imprint, received 6,6 million dinars in the competition for co-financing media content of public interest in the City of Šabac.
Cenzolovka reports that the editor of the portal is Radmila Isaković, who is also the director of Infomačva doo, but also the coordinator of the Information Council of Western Serbia in the Serbian Progressive Party. The commission's decision to award the money to the newly founded media house was criticized by journalists and media associations. In a joint statement, NUNS, ANEM, Local Press and the Media Association asked the City of Šabac and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications to reconsider the decision.
The presenters of the Šabac radar show wrote in their response that "the Šabac competition was conducted according to the law", and that the journalist associations are "clearly blockade-minded", that they are "applying double standards" and "trying to put pressure on the young media, while at the same time keeping quiet about competitions where associations and newspapers close to them receive money".
Local replicas
Photo: UNS Press CenterDragan J. Vučićević is expanding his media portfolio
In these broadcasts, there are often raids against local journalists who report in the interest of the public, representatives of the opposition, students and local activists.
The editorial staff of the Valjevo collegium, which threatened the lawyer, stood out in particular Jani Aćimović Planojević and her family. Mother, father and daughter Jana are part of the legal team that represents 27 citizens who filed a report due to police brutality against the citizens of Valjevo on August 14 last year. Time has written about this case before.
On the same television, Valjevo journalists Darija Ranković and Slavica Vujanac were accused of "taking money from state institutions for the overthrow of the state" because of advertisements on their portals. Journalists and media associations have condemned the targeting of female journalists, seeking reactions from the authorities. However, the epilogue of the story is that the companies that were targeted unilaterally terminated the contracts with these portals.
Examples of pressure on local media can be seen in other cities as well. After the allegations presented in the program Report, the portal Ozon Press lost its contract with its long-term collaborators Sloboda Čačak.
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Source: Cenzolovka/Vreme
