On May 7, at midday, NATO jets dropped 30 cluster bombs in the center of Nis, Yugoslavia's third largest city. Over 60 people were wounded and 15 killed. Another NATO mistake as there are no "military targets" nearby. The very next day NATO bombed the city again.

And commercials! Imagine how much money a TV station or a newspaper [can] earn from the commercials in the middle of a hot story of the day! I know that as much I love the TV I hate it too, just because of such unlimited power.

NATO has targeted the Yugoslav media since the beginning of the aggression against our country. Almost all transmitters of the Radio Television of Serbia have been destroyed until now. Media war has been an unavoidable accompaniment of the armed conflicts up to now; remember the rigged "television" events in Sarajevo ("Markale market" and "Vasa Miskin street" - proved to be a media hoax) then the events in Kosovo before the war began (never substantiated allegations on "poisoning of Albanian children", Albanian women's protests during which they lit up candles - familiar to Christian not Muslim religion - in front of CNN cameramen and talking of mass graves.) That war was waged using the instruments of the media.

Rescuers save a wounded Serbian TV journalist.

This is evidently the first time that NATO, which is claimed to be a military wing of the CNN, has started a media war in which it is using weapons to strike [out a] different opinion.

[The] Television building in Novi Sad, the capital of [the] Serbian province of Vojvodina, was bombed on the same day when a whole democratic world celebrated [the] day of the freedom of the press. I spent 14 years working there, making some good documentaries which I'm very proud of. Now, that place is nothing but a huge crater, filled with scraped relics. It was the fourth media building destroyed in Yugoslavia since the beginning of the war.

The first one was [the] TV building in Pristina. Then came the Usce business centre in Belgrade, which was the location of several radio and TV stations like TVKosava which was a kind of Yugoslav MTV, and three private TV channels: TVPink broadcasted only entertainment programme, music and movies (mainly American), TVBK informative and recreation channel and TV SOS - sport channel. The third was the State TV in Belgrade. I must admit - for the last 9 years I never watched the State TV programme. That TV station was for me before the war just a tool of the regime.

[But now,] no matter what is being said in the world, from my personal experience I can testify that there [is] not one independent TV station in Yugoslavia. Each TV station is basically a mouthpiece of a political party (regime's or oppositional, there is no difference) or some domestic or foreign organisation...

But [after] the war begins, the State TV became the voice of my country, the chronicle of death and destruction and [the] witness of the genocide over a small country. I was even pleasantly surprised with the level of professional work and the effort to show the world the results of the NATO "humanitarian experiment".

The "successful" destruction of a State TV in Belgrade which was a "legitimate military target" according the NATO officials, caused sharp reactions and numerous protests of journalists all over the world.

European Radio-Television Union (Geneva): "Beside our concern for human lives, Union is also concerned about endeavours to limit [the] rights of public [for] complete information regardless [of] censorship, intentional distort[ion] or deliberate destruction of the means of information exchange". The Union's chairman Albert Scharf said that "We do not see that [the] cutting of any source of information can have any useful goal".

Dutch radio and TV network NOS underlines that [the] attack on State TV is "a blow to independent reporting from the region".

"The bombardment of Serbian television is frightening to reporters", said The New York-based Committee for the Protection of Reporters director for Europe, Chrystyna Lapychak.

She expressed apprehension that this act "might forever jeopardise correspondents who report about various conflicts all over the world".

"Under the Geneva Convention, reporters are not fighters", Lapychak said, warning that NATO had begun taking decisions about what people can or cannot watch by bombarding the Serbian Radio Television.