Campaign with a Dangerous Purpose

KRIK campaign (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)

The latest pro-government media campaign targeted against the Krik investigative journalists has been met with an unusually strong and solid response by professional media associations, activists and media outlets escaping government control. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a synchronized attack by pro-government tabloids and TV stations against the Krik portal, a chorus of criticism from the Serbian Progressive Party’s officials creating the traditional backdrop to it. The portal was described as a media accomplice to an organized criminal group of drug dealers and football fans that had been arrested in a recent police raid.