media

When the regulators are raised: How does the propaganda machine “extinguish” the crisis in Serbia?

Although discussions of “colour revolutions” in Serbia surfaced in early November, significant attempts to delegitimize protests became apparent on November 22. Ana Brnabić, Parliament Speaker, then characterized roadblocks due to fatalities in Novi Sad as “well-coordinated from abroad”. A couple days later, the narrative intensified. Media outlets began comparing Serbian protests to those against Russian […]

December 8, 2024

How the EU pushes Serbia towards BRICS: Russian Media and Belgrade have the answer

“BRUSSELS CHOOSES SERB-HATER PICULA: They shut the door on Serbia and push it towards BRICS” the media wrote on October 22 when they learned that Croatian politician Tonino Picula was appointed as the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Serbia. The next day, headlines read: “EP Appoints Picula: A Serb-hater Reports on Serbia” and raised the question, […]

November 20, 2024

US Elections in Serbian media: Trump is a peacemaker, Kamala a synonym for new wars

Kamala is “mentally disturbed” and “incompetent” The media widely reported that Donald Trump is “clear” and “ruthless” while stating that US Vice President Kamala Harris is a “mental invalid”, meaning she has “serious mental problems”. Such headlines were prominent in the first days after outgoing US President Joseph Biden withdrew from the […]

November 4, 2024

Fair, Fairer, BRICS

Multipolar as the buzzword The majority of media pieces maintain that the 16th BRICS summit, hosted by Russia in Kazan from October 22 to 24 is set to have historical ramifications. With several outlets suggesting the summit is a turning point in history, the Informer further suggests the outcome of the summit will have […]

October 30, 2024

Anti-Western front: How Serbia defends Russian voices

The evil West and the “island of freedom” Reporters Without Borders recently assessed that Russia Today uses its office in Belgrade to “adjust Kremlin narratives before spreading them throughout Southeast Europe”. In that analysis, created as part of their new initiative, Propaganda Monitor, RWB also called on the EU and its member states to […]

October 20, 2024

Govorit Moskva

“I used the conversation with Ambassador Botsan-Kharchenko to hand him a letter for the President of the Russian Federation, Putin, in which, alongside congratulations for his electoral victory, I explained the difficult situation faced by the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, significant political challenges that await Serbia, along with gratitude to the Russian Federation […]

April 1, 2024

We only have to adopt the Report on advertisements in the campaigns

September 16, 2019

Applicants for information of public importance are rarely citizens

“If we would just count the number of requests only very few citizens are among the applicants for information of public importance.”

August 2, 2019

The media flunked because they joined the political coalition

“When Draza Petrovic presented the award to me, he said – if I had wanted to be brave, I would have become a firefighter, not a journalist.”, answered Slobodan Georgiev, BIRN editor, winner of the award “Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic” for journalistic courage, when asked what journalistic courage is. He recalled that Superman, in fact, was […]

June 17, 2019

Freedom House has nothing new on Serbia

“Freedom House has nothing new. Freedom House is just an article written based on the last year report, and it refers much less to Serbia than last year.”

June 12, 2019