In the last issue of Slovenian women magazine Jana a short interview with me was published. Jana is a magazine of which I really haven't got good opinion, mainly because of their political propaganda of individual option, usually the one in power. In addition, in the past Jana published a bunch of lies about me. I gave an interview solely because it was dome by my colleague, a world-renowned traveler Benka Pulko.

 

First of all, a notice: this modest comment ought to be published on the web portal Politikis, but as it includes several critical sentences on former Prime Minister Janez Janša, the portal editor decided not to publish the text. Amazing, how much power dirty party autocracy in Slovenia has, isn't it? And so despite the fact that for almost twenty years now we live in a democracy ...

PDF version of my article in INDIA ECONOMY REVIEW, published at the IIPM Think Tank, Hyderabad (December 2009): It's time for review: media markets and press freedom

 

If you are not economically free, you are not free at all, once said Austrian and British economist and philosopher, one of the founders of classical liberalism, Friedrich August von Hayek. The fact is that economic freedom represents a basis for all other freedoms and therefore actually provides all other privileges: no matter which political ideology are we talking of and irrespective of which part of the world we live in. Yet we can not ignore the fact that totalitarian regimes – among which in particular the still existing communism needs to be highlighted – provide much less freedom and economics in totalitarian regimes in less developed, which consequently is reflected in negative shades practically in all other spheres of life. Thus: also in media and their performance. Thus, the American organization Freedom House, which was in 1941 for the purpose of monitoring media freedom set up by then U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt – and is funded by the U.S. government and private sources – in its report for 2008 established that media freedom in world declined. And what is particularly worrying: for the first time it declined in all regions, which can be attributed to a strong wave of global financial crisis, as well as to pressure from governments and other influential and powerful actors. 

 

Opposition leader Janez Janša has recently announced that in spring we shall meet on streets. So what? Well, he knows, why: to wit, in winter is too cold - thus at the beginning of the last Prime Minister's mandate he made a fool of small workers, who clumped into Ljubljana in snow. And went on strike. Hard to believe that anyone ever knew why? For eternal raising of minimum wage? Against Janša? For the red left-wing? For trade union chiefs?

 

 
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In the last issue of student newspaper Katedra also an interview with me was published ...

 

Ana Jud is L’Enfant terrible of Slovenian journalism. Columnist and publicist who early has stirred passions of professional and general public. Therefore she is unpopular among domestic political, professional and other interest guilds. Probably this is why she is just enough daring to say things that others don't want or are not allowed to say.