PHOTO: Aleksandar AnđićHow the government-controlled media reported on today's environmental protest, and how those whom the government calls foreign mercenaries
The obligation of every media is to report truthfully and objectively. The information about today's protest "For safe air" in Belgrade, which the local media conveyed to their readers/viewers, is the latest example that for many of them, "truth and objectivity" is not the primary goal.
NovaS television had a live broadcast from the protest and a live blog on the portal. Television N1 as well. They gave speeches at the Terazije fountain in which, on behalf of all those gathered, they asked the state to change its attitude towards environmental protection problems and start applying laws to the biggest polluters.
During the duration of the protest, RTS published on its portal impartially intoned extensive information full of facts about the reasons for the rally, the demands, the route of the walk and the future plans of the organizers.
They quoted Aleksandra Kurilić from "Eco straža" that Belgrade is the most polluted city in Europe and that it was discovered in September that the Institute for Public Health "Batut" had been hiding information about the most polluted spots in Serbia for a year. They also published a video from the protest. Everything was in accordance with the rules of the profession.
The daily "Blic" published an extensive report on the event, illustrated with photos and a video, on its portal. In the headline, the daily "Danas" pointed out that there were over a thousand citizens at the protest, and then, quoting the speakers, informed its readers in detail about all the events of the meeting.
On the other hand, only a short news item with basic information about the event appeared on the portals of the daily newspapers "Politika" and "Kurir".
In the first sentence of the news about the protest, "News Online" informed the readers that "opposition sympathizers and activists, posing as environmentalists, are once again harassing citizens by blocking traffic." today's environmental meeting.
The "Mondo" portal started the short news with the information that "a group of citizens called Eco Guard held a protest this week in the center of Belgrade."
The daily "Alo" accompanied today's protest with a photo of Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta and mistakenly cited him as the leader of the organizer of this protest, the Eco Guard movement, which is actually headed by Bojan Simišić. In the photo, the leader of the Ecological Uprising Ćuta holds a cigarette in his hand with the comment that he is "calling for a protest against air pollution, but he himself does not take the cigar out of his mouth."
Nothing in that gesture would be hypocritical, commented "Alo", if Ćuta himself did not participate in air pollution "then when he lights a cigarette in the presence of a non-smoker, ignoring the danger he puts the other party in, since passive smokers also have serious predispositions to the disease caused by tobacco smoke."
These objections are documented by the fact that "between 16.000 and 20.000 people die annually in Serbia as a result of smoking."
The harmfulness of tobacco smoke was not the subject of the protest that was the reason for the aforementioned text. They did not publish the information, which was the reason for this protest, that due to increasing air pollution in cities across Serbia, more and more citizens are suffering from cardiovascular diseases and that about 15.000 people die from this disease every year.
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