Dinner at Mesic’s
Dinner at Mesic’s place – the twilight of Croatian journalism
(on croatian: Večera kod Mesića – sumrak hrvatskog novinarstva)
Modern twilight of Croatian political journalism has started on dinner at President Stjepan Mesic, his controverse councelor Budimir Loncar, the publisher of Nacional, Ivo Pukanic, coowner of EPH, Ninoslav Pavic and directora of WAZ Bodo Hombach and Srdjan Kerim, about which public found out for the first time in comments in Dear Blog in my basic 45 Lines.
I continued with research of the event in posts: WAZ vs. «Krone» via EPH, UPRH, NCL, Ivo Pukanic doesn’t deny the meeting with representatives of WAZ and EPH in Office of President of Croatia, Open letter to President of Union of Croatian journalists: Blog iz equal to other media.
Except at Pukanic, I was checking at Ninoslav Pavic, Stipe Oreskovic, Bodo Hombach, Boris Sprem, Budimir Loncar, Maja Razovic… Nobody wanted to give a comment. Than Pukanic openly confessed: Ivo Pukanic once more confirmed the dinner with Pavic, Mesic and Hombach. Later also Mesic confirmed the same, and last Sunday at show of Aleksandar Stankovic, President denied it was about his interfering in freedom of media. He explained that he in all that story found himself on initiative of Bodo Hombach in order to Ivo Pukanic and Ninoslav Pavic settle their dispute.
Hombach’s motive, of cours, doesn’t have anything with freedom of media in Croatia. His interest was to Ivo Pukanic stop in Austrian media with accusations that WAZ in Croatia started to cooperate with mobsters from EPH, because those Pukanic’s accusations could financialy damage WAZ – dismissal of contract with Krone.
And the motive of President Stjepan Mesic and Ivo Pukanic started to appear after meeting Pavic-Pukanic, in September this year, about what reported anonymous commenter in 45 lines:
Buddy, yesterday in colourful restaurant «Medvednica», at Rodjo’s, for three hours and twenty minutes nicely treated Ninoslav Pavic and Ivo Pukanic Puki, who was also the host of the meal. What were they talking about, we will inform you soon…
Ah, probably, Puki gave to Ninek message from Remetinec, like: don’t crap too much man, because Hrvoje said that your car will explode again, but not empty, but with your family. Now for confirmation is needed to track closely EPH’s media covering of Petrac case.
After lunch in restaurant «Medvednica» it becomes clear what conditions of deal, which was blessed by President Mesic, should fulfill WAZ and EPH. Trial of Hrvoje Petrac, who was for years the most attacked exactly in issues of EPH, was weakly researched by Pavic-Hombach’s journalists. The only exception are Davor Butkovic and Gordan Malic, who also extremely lightly remind on earlier suspicious connected with Petrac.
Modern twilight of Croatian journalism appears clear to everyone who doesn’t close his eyes. In issues of EPH no more are questioned Petrac’s mob businesses, his financial connections with President Stjepan Mesic and publisher Ivo Pukanic. It is ironic that public source of informations about connection of Hrvoje Petrac with Ivo Pukanic and Mesic’s Office, former chief of police, Ranko Ostojic, today employed in EPH as a member of board of managers of Slobodna Dalmacija.
Without any critics are released statements of President Stjepan Mesic, who process of Hrvoje Petrac transfers in public lynch of the damaged (his son was kidnapped) Vladimir Zagorac.
Not only journalists of EPH, but nobody in Croatian mainstream media, doesn’t comment following topics: Synchronised Petrac and Mesic, President Mesic against journalists hierlings, President Mesic lies about emigrant money and Racan, also as Mesic, doesn’t say the truth about emigrant money.
What is the most tragic, all blogs are behaving about these questions as mainstream media do. No one bloger, except few nicks of commenters on my blog, doesn’t deal critical with the trial of Hrvoje Petrac for kidnapping minor son of Tomislav Zagorac.
Instead of conclusion:
It is understandible to me the behaving of mainstream journalists. They don’t want to resent to their bosses and not to find themselves on the street as seven journalists of Glas Istre recently did, or as I did last year. Some are flattering to President Mesic, because he is the source of information for them on which they build their anti-tudjman-anti-hdz image generals after battle. Or they were Tudjman people in time of Tudjman, but they are lazy and incompetent to work in research journalism, so for them is the easiest, in order to stay in business, to trade with Mesic.
Nevertheless, I can’t understand what stops blogers to start to take off the masks of connections of mob, main authority and mainstream media. Are (annonymous) blogers afraid of revenge of Hrvoje Petrac, President Mesic, Ivo Pukanic; to be accused of being Sanader’s men, hierlings of Vladimir Zagorac? Funny and tragic!
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