Nikola Gruevski and Macedonian Reporter Targeted for Not Cheering Team - Kosovo Fines Officials For Not Declaring Assets

27 Jan 2012 / 09:34
Macedonian Reporter Targeted for Not Cheering Team

Journalist comes under fire for not showing enough patriotic pride in country’s sporting achievements.

Sinisa Jakov Marusic

SkopjeA news portal seen as close to the Macedonian ruling party has taken a well-known journalist to task for failing to show sufficient pride in the country’s recent sporting success.

Citing remarks on his Facebook wall, Kurir published an article on Wednesday entitled “Euphoria Bothers Borjan Jovanovski” in which it claimed that the reporter was obviously “bothered” by the national team’s success in the European Men’s handball Championship.

“While the entire nation is united and celebrates the successes of our players… someone is obviously bothered by this euphoria”, the article said.

Jovanovski is something of a hate figure to officials of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party of Nikola Gruevski.

He was the object of a personal attack from the Prime Minister last year. In an interview for MIA news agency, Gruevski accused him of working with the EU to denigrate the country.

Vesna Shopar, communications professor at the Macedonian Institute for Media, MIM, says he is clearly being targeted again.

“Anyone who speaks differently from the discourse dictated by the government is immediately put on the wall of shame,” she said.

After the premier’s attack last year, the journalists union, the ZNM, reminded Gruevski that it was not his job to comment on the work of individual journalists.

This time the head of the ZNM, Naser Selmani, told Balkan Insight, “We will review this text and decide whether to react”.

Earlier this week there was another dispute concerning journalists when several sporting federations and fan clubs took offence at the allegedly unpatriotic remarks of journalist Branko Geroski.

In his Sunday column called “Let’s Cheer and Hate Each Other”, written for the Plusinfo news site, Geroski criticized Macedonian fans who chant offensive slogans about ethnic Albanians….

Joke Show in Kosovo: fine for 300 €

27 Jan 2012 / 09:06
Kosovo Fines Officials For Not Declaring Assets

Pristina’s Minor Court has punished senior public officials for not honouring a deadline to declare their assets, fining most of them 300 euros

Fatmir Aliu

Pristina

Dieser Eintrag wurde am 27.1.2012 um 11:17 verfasst und befindet sich in Balkan (Englisch). Sie können alle Antworten zu diesem Eintrag über den Feed RSS 2.0 mitverfolgen. Hinterlassen Sie eine Antwort oder einen Trackback-Link zu Ihrer eigenen Homepage.