Veran Matic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)
Chairman of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) Management Board Veran Matic has said that more than 22 attacks by police officers on journalists have been recorded since August and that those attacks are expected at government supporters' so-called anti-blockade rallies.
Matic told the Oct. 14 issue of the Danas newspaper that the presence of professional journalists at those gatherings was unwanted, "because the authorities are constantly trying to falsify reality."
"They falsify everything, from the number of attendants, through the participants' messages and demands, to the very nature of the protests. Professional journalists bare reality, which is completely in discord with the government propaganda [presented] through tabloid media and selective reports by the public services," said Matic.
Commenting on police treatment of journalists, he said that at the start of the protests in November last year the police had set "a new standard" by ignoring attacks on journalists.
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