media
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.”
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 […]
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.”
Today all journalists are safe
“The period from 2002 to 2008 was marked by assassinations of journalists in Serbia, but today all journalists are safe. Anyone who threatens a journalist is automatically and expediently brought to justice. These people are arrested, processed and brought before prosecutors’ offices and courts. Every threat, any violence, each strike. We are making the prescribed penalties more severe.”