Photo: Printscreen/Youtube/PinkThe citizens' response to the reckless campaign of cracking down on the "Serbia against violence" protests on national television was to take to the streets in even greater numbers. Basically: if you're not sure if you should protest, turn on TV Pink
A state of emergency has been going on for almost three weeks on Pink TV: special shows, special guests, overtime, primetime work by DJ Vučićević Informer, Nebojša Krstić Krlet, Dejan Vuk Stanković and Saša Milovanović Telegraf on the task of sanitizing and vulturizing the "Serbia against violence" protest. Predrag Sarapa barely kept up the pace in the marathon competition in outrage over the "violent" protests aimed at the "collapse of Serbia", which were "organized by some foreign services" and carried out by "opposition vultures" who "seduced several thousand misguided people". citizens.
After the horrific events of May 3 and 4 in Belgrade and the Mladenovac area, Pink television reacted, as it has for a decade and a half, to every potential crisis situation for the government: it adjusted reality to progressive interests, filled the public space with the glorification of the omnipresent Aleksandar Vučić, bursts of derogatory adjectives smothered anyone who would notice that something was wrong.
As the established program propaganda matrix did not produce the desired results, the broadcast vocabulary became more and more derogatory, the national newscasts and special crisis shows became longer, and the morning programs became more and more evening. And as the rant broadcasted by Pink TV became louder, instead of, as so many times before, the disgusted and discouraged slowly retreating into themselves, the citizens took to the streets of Belgrade in increasing numbers. Until now, in so many cases, the tried and tested system of progressive defense against danger has failed.
The media strategists of the Serbian Progressive Party and its president overlooked one key thing: this time the game was moved from the field of unscrupulous political hitting below the belt, which the citizens of this country Googled, after the violent death of so many children, to the field of humanity where Aleksandar Vučić, Ana Brnabić and other progressive exponents did not succeed. They started slipping, tripping, grinning and squirming, rushing from mistake to mistake. Pink Television followed them on task, spreading and glorifying the demonstration of the absence of elementary compassion. When, after almost three weeks, they saw where they went wrong, it was already too late: the grand finale was scheduled and could no longer be postponed.
There are still two days left until the "biggest rally ever in Serbia", that "magnificent" "Rally of Hope" that Aleksandar Vučić personally invited on Friday, May 26, to show whose is bigger. When televisions with a national frequency failed, the President of the Republic of Serbia decided to move the competition from television to the street. In the series of mistakes committed since May 3rd, that could turn out to be the biggest: that gathering is the most absurd mass gathering in the history of Serbia.
A man whose party, of which he is the undisputed leader, controls not only all key state institutions and all televisions with a national frequency, but is also in power in almost every municipality and local community, schedules a protest against the state of society over which he has a decisive influence. And to that protest, he not only brings people from all over Serbia, but also from North Macedonia and Republika Srpska, in thousands of rented buses in an organized manner, willingly or under coercion.
The opposition scheduled its fourth protest in a row for a day later, Saturday, May 27. The Belgrade record for the number of people who participated in one protest was already broken on May 19. Every representation of the people who took to the streets on national television as "drunken mobs", "provocateurs", "foreign envoys", "thugs", at best "lost sheep", brought more and more citizens to the streets. The internal dynamics of this collision of "two Serbias", in which each side claims for itself that it is "decent", has been brought to a dangerous acceleration.
In order to motivate citizens to take to the streets again in huge numbers, the organizers of the "Serbia Against Violence" protest need only say: watch TV Pink every day, especially on May 26. After him comes "the day after". And then what?
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