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The same headline, accompanied by a photograph of a dog’s head with exposed canine teeth and copies of the rare media sources that criticise the work of the government and the president, also appears on the cover page of that weekly, which is published by Politika AD (JSC) – a company that’s partly owned by the State of Serbia.<\/p>\n
Apart from interpreting the article as a call for the lynching of journalists, Journalists’ associations were also disturbed by the fact that the article was authored by \u0110or\u0111e Marti\u0107, a former editor-in-chief of daily government newspaper ‘Express Politika’. In April 1999, while Marti\u0107 was heading the editorial staff and NATO was bombing Serbia, this newspaper published an article under the headlne \u201c\u0106uruvija welcomed the bombs\u201d. That article was also read aloud on Television Serbia’s most watched news broadcast, and it was only five days later when journalist Slavko \u0106uruvija, a critic of the Milo\u0161evi\u0107 regime, was gunned down in Belgrade.<\/p>\n
Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 condemned the weekly’s cover page and expressed his expectation that this will not reoccur, \u201cat least in media in which the state has an ownership stake\u201d. His media advisor, Suzana Vasiljevi\u0107, tendered her resignation from the Supervisory Board of Politika AD, although she noted that this body has no influence over the weekly’s editorial policy.<\/p>\n
This ‘Illustrated Politika’ article and cover page were also condemned by Reporters Without Borders and the Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists, while the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade also responded critically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
November 1, 2018 The most recent issue of weekly publication ‘Illustrated Politika’ included an article under the headline \u201cThe hounds have been released…\u201d in which certain independent media outlets were threatened in response to their for critical reporting of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. The same headline, accompanied by a photograph of a dog’s head with exposed canine teeth and copies of the rare media sources that criticise the work of the government and the president, also appears on the cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\n