April 13, 2023<\/p>\n
He headed to prison on 3rd<\/sup> April with great fanfare, claiming to be a victim, when in reality he was jailed because he didn\u2019t want to pay the 200,000 dinars (approx. 1,700 euros) that the court obliged him to pay for defaming journalist Jugoslav \u0106osi\u0107. He was released from prison after just two days, with his wife having paid the sun. This was followed by the airing on TV Pink \u2013 also a pro-government outlet \u2013 of a video by an unknown author calling for the arrests of journalists and editors of newspapers Danas and Nova, and television companies Nova S and N1, for criticising the current government and Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n These same media companies were also targeted after the portal Raskrivanje [Disclosure] published analysis showing that images of President Vu\u010di\u0107 appeared 851 times on the front pages of five tabloids last year alone. The Serbian president responded by claiming that he\u2019d appeared on the front pages of Danas and Nova on multiple occasions times and that their \u201cmiddle name is lie\u201d.<\/p>\n Also speaking out on the issue was Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107, who announced that she would prove the president\u2019s claim that he had appeared more times on the front pages of newspapers owned by United Media, which she spent the next few days attempting to do and, allegedly, succeeded on proving the claim.<\/p>\n United Media called on judicial institutions and investigative bodies to respond urgently, given that government representatives were \u201copenly calling for the persecution of free media and turning our journalists into targets, jeopardising their safety\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 13, 2023 Top representatives of the Serbian government and pro-government media outlets have launched a witch-hunt against media companies owned by United Group \u2013 television companies N1 and Nova S, and daily newspapers Danas and Nova. This latest which-hunt was prompted by the imprisoning of Dragan J. Vu\u010di\u0107evi\u0107, owner and editor-in-chief of extremely pro-government tabloid newspaper Informer. He headed to prison on 3rd April with great fanfare, claiming to be a victim, when in reality he was jailed because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\n