Freedom and the media: A Downward Spiral<\/a>\u201d. Freedom House also adds that there has been a noticeable decline in media freedom since Vu\u010di\u0107 came to power.<\/h2>\nSerbian President Vu\u010di\u0107 said that the report presented \u201cnothing new\u201d, rather that it was about two texts written on the basis of last year’s report, and that the targets of the report were Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Zselyka Csaky, author of the report and Freedom House researcher for this part of the world, reacted to this statement by telling Cenzolovka that these reports are based every year on local analyses \u201cfrom the field\u201d, stressing that they speak to the extent to which media freedom is being suffocated in Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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