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Str.4-5
The TruTh abouT PaTria, ParT ii
Str. 11 NENAD GLÜCKS,
JOUrNALISt OF rEPOrtEr:
JournalisTic credibiliTy Takes a side sTeP
Str. 12-14
The achievemenTs of The minisTries in The 2004-
2008 Term
Str. 20-22
PrimoŽ koZmus (gold medal in hammer Throw ):
dreams fulfilled
Str.28-29 OUr EXCELLENCE
Pick & Place grouP - The leader in develoPmenT
and manufacTure of
Television audience measuremenT equiPmenT
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Anæe Logar
IMAGINE tHE
UNIMAGINABLE
Can you imagine your Prime Minister being accused on the
public TV channel of a member of the European Union that
he was receiving bribes in order to secure the acquisition of
military equipment for the country? Probably not. This one-
of-a-kind scandal has indeed happened. A Finnish journalist,
Magnus Berglund, in his half-hour TV story, has accused the
Prime Minister of Slovenia of accepting bribes. The journalist
did not adduce one single item of evidence; his accusations
were only supported with statements from his Slovene
interviewees. We discovered later that this was not the only
slip of the Finnish television station YLE. Their Council for
mass media once discovered a breach of the journalists'
code of ethics in a similar programme. Magnus Berglund
failed to mention that the people he interviewed either had
business relations with a company which lost a deal in an
international public tender, or were members of opposition
parties. Oh yes, Slovenia is in the middle of an election race.
Some people have obviously calculated that the polls are not
in their favour, so they sent their propagandists abroad to
sully the homeland. Déjà vu. More on this story in ‘What’s
making the news’.
To put all of the above aside, Slovenians are still proud of the
great success our athletes achieved in the recent Olympics in
Beijing. Number of medals? Five. Well, if not with quantity,
we can congratulate ourselves on quality. In terms of the
number of medals won per inhabitant, we are at the top
of the world’s list. And since gold is a rare commodity,
especially if sought after in the queen of sports, track and
field athletics, we asked our new Olympic champion hammer
thrower Primož Kozmus about his feelings when he received
his gold medal. In this edition of Sinfo.
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