The group claims its TV channel is the “most watched amongst cable networks” within the nation.
Like different pro-government shops, Informer advantages from public funding, via promoting bought by state operator Telekom Serbia, and unique interviews with the nation’s leaders.
In the meantime, “the state of affairs for impartial media in Serbia is more and more dire,” to the purpose the place they danger disappearing, mentioned Slobodan Georgiev, information director of tv channel NOVA S.
Based on the media watchdog Reporters With out Borders, nearly all of Serbian media derive their earnings from promoting and opaque public subsidies, each sources largely managed by the ruling elite and depending on the media teams’ political alignment.
“Advertisers near the federal government, in addition to state-owned corporations, utterly bypass impartial media,” mentioned Dragoljub Petrovic, editor-in-chief of the each day newspaper Danas.
‘Imbecile’
Crucial media and journalists are subjected to numerous types of stress, together with vindictive lawsuits, public insults, and being labelled traitors.
