Protest Outside Informer Concludes as Petition to Revoke Frequency is Signed
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<span class="datePublished" itemprop="datePublished" content="2025-03-29T18:23">29.03.2025. 18:23h</span>
<span class="dateModified" itemprop="dateModified" content="2025-03-29T20:33">Ažurirano: 29.03.2025. 20:33h</span>
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<p>A protest titled "Dezinformer," gathering thousands of students and citizens discontented with the reporting of a media outlet, successfully took place outside the Informer newspaper and television headquarters in Belgrade, lasting just over six hours without incidents.</p>
<p>During the demonstration, which obstructed Peka Dapčevića Street in Belgrade's Voždovac district, students showcased various performances, including "Cleaning and Scrubbing the Media Space," where they aimed to "decontaminate media waste" and cautioned attendees to keep their distance due to excessive "media sludge."</p>
<p>The demonstrators also presented a petition demanding the confiscation of Informer television's Belgrade broadcast frequency. Additionally, they displayed the newspaper's front pages on a newly erected fence around the Informer building, labeling the display the "Journalistic Wall of Shame."</p>
<p>Speaking from an improvised stage on a truck near the Informer headquarters, students declared that "Informer is not a media outlet, but a government propaganda tool." They also read excerpts from the Serbian Journalists' Code of Conduct, claiming the media outlet violates these principles routinely.</p>
<p>Students prepared goulash and extended an invitation to Dragan Vučićević, the owner of Informer, to join them; however, he did not respond.</p>
<p>Throughout the event, participants made noise and carried flags from Serbia and Belgrade, alongside various banners supporting the students and condemning Informer's reporting.</p>
<p>Anthems such as "The Government is Falling," "How Nice to Be Stupid," and "This is the Country for Us" filled the air while the crowd wielded banners, including ones that read: "Why have you extinguished morality and culture? We demand you extinguish yourselves," and "Come home, dinner will cool" featuring an image of Učićević barred out.</p>
<p>A 16-minute silence was observed to honor the 16 individuals who perished when the canopy at Novi Sad Railway Station collapsed on November 1, 2024.</p>
<p>Student security ensured safety, traffic police managed the area, and several police officers guarded the high-fenced complex surrounding the Informer building. Some individuals in balaclavas were spotted on the premises.</p>
<p>Students from the Faculty of Political Sciences called for the peaceful blockade ahead of the protest, declaring a "media war" against the editorial staff due to ongoing assaults, targeting, and misinformation propagated by the same named television station and its publications.</p>
<p>"Dragan, just a reminder - we're not here to block, we're here to socialize," they remarked, indicating the protest was merely a preliminary step in this "media war."</p>
<p>Interestingly, the day prior to the protest, the operations of Informer television were temporarily halted, allegedly resulting from a successful hacking incident.</p>
<h2>Brnabić: Violence will empower Informer to persist in its reporting style</h2>
<p>The Speaker of the Serbian Parliament and a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Ana Brnabić, characterized the student and citizen protest at Informer as an unacceptable form of pressure and intimidation against any media organization, offering support to the staff of Informer.</p>
<p>"I stand in solidarity with Informer and the courageous individuals in their team, led by Dragan Vučićević. This violence will only fortify their resolve to continue reporting as they see fit, not as dictated by street demands or social media," Brnabić commented on social media.</p>
<p>She expressed that this incident illustrates "how they would handle dissenters if they ever gained power."</p>
<p>Brnabić voiced her curiosity over which journalist associations, NGOs, and media outlets would condemn violence against the media in the 21st century, asserting that this issue transcended editorial policy and represented a battle for media freedom.</p>
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