According to the 2015 Freedom House report,[2] media outlets and journalists in Serbia have been subject to pressure from politicians and owners over editorial contents.
According to the 2015 Freedom House report,[4] media outlets and journalists in Serbia have been subject to pressure from politicians and owners over editorial contents.
[5] In 2021, the Bureau for Social Investigation (BIRODI) reported that Serbian media had become "an industry of populism, promotional, propaganda and revenge tool for personal power", based on nine-years of research.
Mihr also recalled how during the May 2014 floods some articles were taken off websites, while the government "attacked several critical reports" of the official response to the natural events.
Pressure might include the discriminatory and selective allocation of public funds, the abuse of regulatory powers and opaque and discretionary inspections.