Brent Sadler, whom N1 and Nova TV expect as the chief censor, is finally arriving in Belgrade. Are the days of professional journalism on televisions that tear Vučić’s nerves numbered?
It’s been a long time Aleksandar Vučić aimed at televisions N1 and Nova. They annoy him and Danas, Radar and Vreme, all the media that create noise in the projection of its reality, but televisions are the ones that decisively influence public opinion in Serbia. And it has not been going well for him in the last year.
This was largely contributed by these two cable televisions, which, as the only counterweight to the regime’s televisions, worked as part of the company United media and now, in the process of domestication, they are brought under the control of something called Adria News Network.
Their programs not only irritate the president of the country, whose tolerance for criticism decreases the longer he is in power, but they began to erode the foundations of the progressive autocratic regime.
Cameras as guns
Vučić sees N1’s cameras, which broadcast almost all protests against the government in real time, which record what other television stations either cover up or show distorted, filtered through the prism of censorship, as guns pointed at him that must be neutralized at all costs.
In the spirit of obsena politics, he does not intend to remove them, but wants to fill them with blanks.
With the rating gauges in front of his eyes, the head of the progressive church hesitates to call the special parliamentary elections, which for him is to be or not to be. Power is being prepared for them he starts his machinery for the final showdown with Serbia in rebellion: the most loyal loyalists are appointed to the top positions in the police and judiciary, the regime media is in the mode of war propaganda, according to the model Informer local media are being established en masse…
The elimination of N1 and Nova TV, that is, the conversion of these televisions into The first, B92 or Euronews, and their programs in blanks, belongs to the crisis pre-election work of Aleksandar Vučić.
Brent Sadler’s arrival
Behind the scenes between Vučić’s mediators and representatives BC Partners, which owns these two television stations, business relations with Telekom, force the conclusion that the newly formed editorial body chaired by Brent Sadler has the task of adapting the editorial policy of television stations that go along with the regime.
The British journalist announced his imminent arrival to the media editors in Serbia that he is supposed to supervise. He has a mandate for changes that are certain, which will not be called that, but which could very quickly turn out to be wolf-friendly censorship of “occupation platforms”.
Meanwhile, among media employees under management Adria News Network, whose owners do not say anything, are ruled by existential uncertainty. They could be victims of Vučić’s games, just as, without free N1 and Nova, the victim will be the citizens’ right to information.
Source: Vreme
