Šuković: Belonging to the Church of Serbia protects you from the laws of Montenegro

AUTHOR: M.J.
Belonging to the Church of Serbia protects you from the laws of Montenegro - not only because Dritan Abazović signed the Basic Agreement, which - in a way - creates legal possibilities for their untouchability, but because my impression is that most prosecutors understand that situation as a way to own advancement - said the editor-in-chief of Antena M Darko Šuković.
He, in a guest appearance on TV E, said that Boban Batrićević wrote a column, which Antena M published at the beginning of August, and added that his first hearing was already in January. - In that column there are quotes from church dignitaries. They accuse him of endangering public order and peace. It would be a circus, if it weren't for the disaster - said Šuković, in the show "At the end of the day".
I protected the pope, someone will keep that in mind when they next decide on my promotion, I didn't initiate a case against the pope - someone will see it, it will be recorded in the church, so they will know how to repay me. And you know what, they are very right in thinking that way. It just goes that way - he added.
Although the Basic State Prosecutor's Office announced today that there are no grounds for initiating criminal proceedings against Antena M, a case had previously been opened due to Miljan Vešović's column "How the Civil Conflict Begins in Montenegro", and the columnist of that media, Boban Batrićević, was tried before the Court for Misdemeanors. started at the end of January. Despite that - while writing columns, Šuković never thinks about whether his views are for criminal charges.
Because I think I know myself pretty well and I know that there is nothing in my head that is criminal. So, if you gave me all the power in the world - I wouldn't do anything that goes against my moral code, and my moral code is in accordance with positive law and universal declarations on human rights - explains the TV E interlocutor.
According to Šuković, everything that is happening is a consequence of the atmosphere in Montenegro.
I understand this as a way to disturb you, to deconcentrate you, to take some time away from you, to sway someone around you. I don't think they have any illusions that after 35 years of being a journalist, 35 years in which every text was in the same position, intoned so that they always fight for the same thing, that they will attack me, but they are doing another job - says the head and responsible editor of Antena M.
When asked if this can sway young journalists, Šuković answers that it is, among other things or above all, a test of character.
If that's enough to scare you, then you're not a journalist and you'd better look for another job. There is no one in Antenna who is excited by this, let alone put into a state of questioning. What reaches the public is one per mille of what happens every day - he explains.
When asked if he thinks that the fact that he does not hide his views, but writes them, makes him a less objective journalist, Darko Šuković says that he does not want to be objective at all.
I think objectivity is an overrated category, especially in journalism. I think that a journalist who behaves as if he was cast in the Nikšić Ironworks or the Podgorica Aluminum Plant, who has no feelings, thoughts, or commitments, is not a journalist, but I don't know if he is a human being. I think that there are some slightly different categories and that it would be useful for everyone to use some more appropriate terminology - explains Šuković.
He adds that he believes in the same things and fights for them for 35 years.
I know that 35 years ago, not even five or ten percent of the citizens of Montenegro shared those things with me. Now it might be a few dozen. Therefore, I cannot be objective, because I did not represent the point of view of all those others who do not agree with me. I do not want to represent those views. I want to do everything to change those attitudes. Because if you, to paraphrase and as a kind of my bow to the recently deceased great journalist Petar Luković: if you understand objectivity, and Pera once said it like this, a little Mladić, a little Mother Srebrnica and that's objectivity, you'd better not do journalism. So it's not only not journalistic, it's not human. The point is something else - explains Šuković.
As he states, he has never in his life tried to fight for something he believes in by basing it on some information that is not correct, falsifying an argument, framing someone for something he did not say, taking out of context a sentence that that person did not say, touching family the life of a public figure.
I used one sentence most often when meeting journalists: the fact that you will now have the opportunity to destroy people's lives, does not mean that you should do it. If someone has really decided to ruin himself and his family, you can't, nor are you obliged to save him, but don't even push him towards the abyss - explains Šuković.