The news that United Group (UG) Serbia CEO Vladica Tintor has access to the internal communications of our media outlets, including emails and documents, is seen by Danas daily editor-in-chief Draza Petrovic as a continuation of the plan exposed in a leaked phone conversation between United Group CEO Stan Miller and Telekom Srbija CEO Vladimir Lucic.
“It is obvious they have deals with (Serbian President) Aleksandar Vucic. Not a day goes by without Vucic mentioning United Media. Just yesterday, he spoke again about a platform used to destroy Serbia and labeled (United Group founder Dragan) Solak as the leader of the opposition… He is waging more war against us, United Media journalists, than against the opposition that clearly wants to remove him from power. We have no intention of removing him, since we didn’t run in the elections. We just want this country to become normal,” Petrovic said.
The president and the cortex
While the President frequently cites the “cortex which United Media outlets target, triggering anger and hatred,” the Danas newsroom began the new year facing a fresh wave of threats.
“The Prosecutor’s Office called me the next day, they took down the details, and now we are waiting to see if this will be investigated and prosecuted – or not. These threats, or semi-threats, not to mention the insults, are constantly directed at our outlets. Sometimes we report them, sometimes we don’t. The Prosecutor’s Office often tells us there are no grounds for a ‘threat’ charge, only for ‘insult.’ To save time, we judge what is actually worth reporting. But I feel it’s silly to constantly focus on ourselves, unless, of course, the threats are serious,” Petrovic said.
Recalling one such threat – that “Danas should burn” – Petrovic said that everyone has become “so immersed in the atmosphere of the past 12 years that we have grown numb.”
“We have reached a point where we don’t even see these threats as something particularly shocking anymore, even though they are. But you just keep going, you do your job,” he said.
Source: N1
