Everyday life journalists it often starts with "Dear" and ends with "Best Regards" or something like that.
One of the biggest challenges of the trade is writing official inquiries to institutions and officials. But let's see what's boring, because it's mostly barren in Serbia.
Here are some inquiries and messages that the undersigned journalist has sent in the last few weeks, which have been ignored in turn.
I asked Ana Brnabić if it was true that, as prime minister, she withdrew the letter of objections to the Ohrid and Brussels agreements. Arnaud Guyon ignores multiple requests for an interview about the new position he will supposedly be stepping down from fight "fake news" about Serbia in the foreign press.
The National Accreditation Body was acting crazy when asked about Fr Megatrend operating permit, and the President's cabinet upon request from where Vučić got the Chinese writing board – we covered this topic in newsletter Međuvre.
Even the Ministry of Culture did not respond to my seemingly simple request to submit the program of the European Heritage Days. The tourism organization of Veliko Gradište ignored the request of Fr vampire tourism.
Bad manners for the audience
Am I contagious or is the problem general? We asked several colleagues from BIRN, Danas, Radar, N1, from RTS... and it seems that I am not sick, but it is a manner.
Manner with a sad epilogue - our media reality is torn apart and the audience is at the mercy of the wind. Where to get the whole picture?
To one colleague, for example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to an inquiry about unfilled ambassadorial posts, to another the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not respond to questions about the disappearance of little Danka Ilić. The cadastre and Sapic's Cabinet.
True, sometimes someone answers. Prosecution offices, courts, for the needs of our newsletter In the meantime, for example, we regularly received answers from the press service of the city of Belgrade, the Institute for Statistics or the Institute for Nature Protection.
The same is true, sometimes opposition politicians also choose - they want to appear on television with this, but not with that.
But the champion of ignoring could be the famous information service of the Serbian Progressive Party, led by Vladanka Malović. "They haven't answered any of our inquiries in recent years," a colleague tells us.
The famous "two sides"
One colleague remembers that only during the turbulence in DOS was she able to have the famous "two sides" without problems. That is not the case either before or after that.
Many from the so-called critical media have thrown up their hands, so no more institutions or authorities ask anything. "That is the problem. It always annoyed me when journalists tell me they won't call someone because they 'know' they won't answer," a longtime editor tells me.
Here, the political calculation of the government and the traditional Javanese language coincided.
We tried to get answers on this topic from the Government Office for Cooperation with the Media and the SNS information service. They did not respond to the inquiry.
