Dušan Mitević ( sr-cyr, Душан Митевић; 3 February 1938 – 30 May 2003) was a

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journalist. From 1989–91 he was director of

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(RTB, later renamed Radio Television of Serbia in 1992), Serbia's public broadcaster, during the

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and the ascent to power of

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

. 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". He appeared on the British TV series "

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1938 births 2003 deaths People from Pljevlja Serbs of Montenegro Serbian male journalists 20th-century Serbian journalists {{Serbia-bio-stub