Dušan Mitević ( sr-cyr, Душан Митевић; 3 February 1938 – 31 May 2003) was a
Serbian journalist.
From 1989–91 he was director of
Radio Television Belgrade
Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming thro ...
(RTB, later renamed Radio Television of Serbia in 1992), Serbia's public broadcaster, during the
breakup of Yugoslavia and the ascent to power of
Slobodan Milošević. He resigned from the post following the violent
March 1991 Belgrade protests which had been organized by opposition parties against the increasingly propagandist content of state-controlled media.
Mitević made a statement about the nature of state media in Serbia under Milošević's guidance: "The things that happened at state TV: warmongering, things we can admit to now: false information, biased reporting. That went directly from Milošević to the head of TV".
[''Wide Angle, Milosevic and the Media.'' "Part 3: Dictatorship on the Airwaves." PBS]
Quotation from film: "...the things that happened at state TV: warmongering, things we can admit to now: false information, biased reporting. That went directly from Milošević to the head of TV".
References
1938 births
2003 deaths
People from Pljevlja
Serbs of Montenegro
Serbian journalists
20th-century journalists
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