According to the ZDF, another Western European media outlet proved its true nature and was embarrassed of its lack of journalistic or, in this case, editorial work. Euronews published an article on its website about Janez Janša, written by a journalist born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aleksandar Brezar. In it, a foreigner wrote an anti-propaganda pamphlet against the Slovenian Prime Minister, following the dictation of two biased sources, which he also mentions in the article. What would once have been an international incident is now a Slovenian and European media daily routine.
Aleksandar Brezar, a journalist born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Brussels, wrote a negative agitprop pamphlet for the Euronews web portal against the Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Janša. The article is written by a dictation of two left-wing activists, whom the author of the article even brazenly mentions in the article itself, as it would be written by Mladina journalist (one of the two activists who dictated the article is a journalist and editor of Mladina) with an addition: with an underestimating attitude towards the Slovenian Prime Minister, typical of the attitude of arrogant journalists from the former Yugoslavia towards Slovenia in general.
Distinct underestimation
Brezar begins his article with “Janez Janša, about whom, unlike Viktor Orban, you probably haven’t heard of”. Underestimation, which the big European media house, even biased ones, do not afford to Janša, and even a few days ago ZDF did not afford that. Aleksandar Brezar from Sarajevo. Opinion journalism in an international media giant slandering a prominent European politician at the behest of two extreme leftists. With an admixture of Balkan arrogance.
In the article, Brezar collaborated, according to their dictation, with the director of the Center for Information, Cooperation and Development of Non-Governmental Organizations (CNVOS), Goran Forbici, and Izak Košir, one of the editors of the Mladina web portal. It must be acknowledged that the ZDF, in addition to being more respectful of the Prime Minister, was also at least a level subtler in its choice of “expert commentators”. For their commentators, it is necessary to at least use the Slovenian Google to establish an example of their bias and objectivity, and here it is ad nauseam, “Soros scholarship holder and editor of Mladina”. For those of you who believe that most NGOs are not necessarily left-wing, we suggest you to google the history of Forbici’s reckoning with the SDS. That will be enough to make sure he is not an independent commentator.
The narrative of the article is entirely left-wing: Janša started as a communist, continued as a pacifist, then a liberal and could have been Slovenian Vaclav Havel, but he decided to be Slovenian Orban. As a right-wing populist, an authoritarian leader who changes the law in order to attack independent media and organisations that “criticize society only from the point of view of science and only accidentally criticise only Janša’s governments, but not others“. Liberalism framed by national interests and tradition equated with fascism. The dominant “spike” of the far left, louder and louder, probably even dominant in Europe and the West.
A whole bunch of lies visible
If we could still justify this pamphlet in the context of opinion journalism, if it were not published under the disguise of independent journalism of a serious international publication, we cannot justify a whole bunch of lies that the “Trolist of Soroš” “pushed” into the text. The first lie or, in the worst case, the deliberately misleading half-truth that catches the eye is when Brezar quotes Forbici that since Janša became prime minister for the third time, the number of attacks on “independent journalists”, “anti-corruption activists” and that the number of anti-immigrant opinions and climate sceptics is expected to rise to unprecedented levels.
First, he does not define what he means by “attacks”. It makes a difference if the prime minister tweets something about someone or if he changes the law to violate certain freedoms. Who did the left-wing activists who dictated the pamphlet think of when saying “independent journalists” and “anti-corruption activists”? They mentioned climate sceptics. Unusually, they did not mention the covid sceptics and their connections to left-wing parties and “independent” left-leaning media. Strange if you have no idea or are as malicious as Brezar. When he says “previously unseen, unprecedented levels” … Where are the concrete numbers? There aren’t any, of course. The source said something that coincides with the harmonious meta and sub-narrative of the article.
Košir poetically problematises that Janša began his journey as a just, rebellious hero of the people, who was imprisoned by the authorities, and now that he himself has become the government against which the people are protesting. What a manipulation: to compare Roško and this year’s protests is not appropriate neither from the point of view of justice and justification – nor from the point of view of crowds and consequences. Shortly afterwards, he mentions that he was also imprisoned by the Slovenian authorities, although he does not question whether it is justified or not. At the same time, he does not find it strange or for narrative of the article they dictated to Brezar, is “lost in space” with Forbici, undermining that he was a political prisoner. No, everything was indisputable. Well, he was guilty, but by chance just before the election. The court later acquitted him, but that was proof of his influence. Looney Tunes, to the disgrace of Brezar, Euronews, for whom he writes, and the editor, who gave the green light to publish such a propaganda smear. You can read the full article here.
Who is Aleksandar Brezar? He himself does not cause us any problems in exposing him as a left-wing activist. Let’s take a look at his Twitter profile:
However, if you research a little further, you will come across a page where it is clear that Aleksandar Brezar worked or still works for the Soroš Open Society Foundation: