23.04.1999. Nocas je u centru Beograda gadjana zgrada RTS-a. Prema prvim podacima, ima i mrtvih i ranjenih. Sintagma medijski rat konacno je uoblicena: zaista je poceo fizicki rat protiv medija. Stepen rutalnosti ovog napada iznenadio je sve. Znalo se da u zgradi uvek ima ljudi jer se priprema program

Vec nekoliko dana traje kampanja protiv medija u Srbiji. Gadjaju se predajnici i onemogucava rad mnogih kanala. Srbija polako tone u
informativni mrak. Svaku noc pristizu vesti o rusenju nekog novog predajnika i gasenju novog kanala. Kako komanda NATO-a saopstava, ove akcije se provode u cilju smanjenja prostora na kome se cuje program RTS-a jer je navodno "previse jednostran i ne pruza pravu sliku o dogadjajima".

Pomenuti predajnici, medjutim nisu vlasnistvo RTS-a vec drzave i upotrebljivani su za nogobrojne linkove, od civilnih do vojnih. Mnoge privatne i nevladine stanice ostale su takodje bez mogucnosti za emitovanje. Postavljajuci borbu kao jednoumlja u svetu na vrlo visoku
listu svojih ciljeva, NATO je najgrublje prekrsio svoje "principe". Jednostavno je visednevnom akcijom onemogucio jedno vidjenje da postoji. Rusenjem predajnika poruseni su i mnogi ciljevi borbe za ljudska prava i demokratiju koji su stalno u upotrebi na pres
konferencijama zapadne alijanse.

Bez obzira da li se slagao sa politikom RTS-a ili ne, NATO nije smeo sebi da dozvoli rusenje
njegove mreze i prekidanje programa. To je krajnje varvarski cin jer se jadna strana ostavlja bez mogucnosti da kaze svoju verziju price.

Na mnogim kanalima u Srbiji traje periodicno emitovanje NATO propagandnog TV i radio programa. Primeceno je da se gadjaju oni predajnici koji su svojim redovnim emitovanjem bili smetnja prenosu signala NATO programa. Do sada je poznato da se propagandni programi mogu pratiti na 21 kanalu UHF podrucja sirom severne Srbije
i Beograda, a povremena emitovanja radio programa zabelezena su na frekvencijama 92.5, 102.2, 106.4 FM kao i 1003 AM.

Ljudske zrtve i stravicne slike sa mesta nocasnjeg dogadjaja daju svemu novu dimenziju. Raketiranje neke informativne kuce je nezabelezeno u svetu. Da li to znaci da Srbi sada smeju da uniste CNN ili BBC sedista? Kakva bi reakcija sveta bila na to? Ili bi strani novinari koji izvestavaju iz Jugoslavije mozda trebali doziveti sudbinu svojih kolega iz centra Beograda? Ovo je ipak RAT?!

Pored radija i televizije koji su zaustavljeni, glas druge strane u ovom ratu, Jugoslavije sad dopire samo preko Interneta. Da li ce i najslobodniji medij sveta biti grubo unazadjen prekidanjem veza izmedju Jugoslavije i ostatka sveta? Da li ce jednostavno, biti onemoguceno pravo celog sveta da sagleda sve verzije price i da uporedi sve verzije. Ili ce mu biti ostavljena samo jedna strana. Da li su neke bombe vec namenjene i nama?

23.04.1999. Radio Television of Serbia Central Building, in the centre of Belgrade, was bombed tonight. According to initial reports, many people have been injured and some have been killed. NATO's
interpretation of the term "media war" has finally been defined. There is real war going on against the media. The level of brutality and
animosity of this attack had shocked everyone. It was well known that
people (journalists as well as technical and support staff) were always present inside offices and studios, due to 24hr-day broadcasting
schedules.

Western media as well as NATO military campaign against media in Serbia have been going on for days. TV transmitters were being hit and some stations were unable to go on air. Information within Serbia is slowly fading into darkness. Every night fresh news, containing reports of another transmitter destroyed and another channel shut, are arriving. As the NATO HQ speaks, these actions are performed in order to diminish the coverage of RTS broadcast area, because RTS is claimed to be "Too narrow and is not reporting in the appropriate
manner."

However, destroyed transmitters, were not RTS owned but are property of the state. They have been used for many different links from public to government. Many private and non-Government media have been taken off air. By ranking the action against "media dictatorship" very high on its priority chart, NATO brutally slammed its own principles. It simply made one point of view disappear. By crushing transmitters and links, many goals of human rights movement were also crushed, yet they were proclaimed to be high on NATO's priority list during press briefs.

It makes no difference if NATO agreed with RTS's policies, it should not have allowed itself to stop the broadcast by destroying the RTS network. This is a violent, barbaric act, because one side in
conflict is denied the chance to speak for itself.

There are periodical broadcasts of NATO's channel happening on many channels in Serbia. It has been noted that most of the
transmitters that could obstruct the NATO broadcast were targeted. It is reported that NATO program for the time being could be seen on 21st UHF channel throughout the northern Serbia and Belgrade area while occasionally radio broadcasts were captured on 92.5, 102.2, 106.4 FM and 1003 AM. Radio and TV stations that used these
frequencies were housed in Business Centre USCE, destroyed on April 22nd.

Human victims and blood curdling pictures from tonight's missile attack on Serbian
Radio-Television headquarters have opened a new, sickening, dimension in media relations.
Targeting a TV centre is a barbaric act world has never seen before. Does this mean that Serbs are free to destroy CNN or BBC centres? What would the world media say if we followed NATO's example? Or how would foreign journalists, presently reporting from Yugoslavia, feel about meeting the same destiny as their Yugoslav colleagues from downtown Belgrade? After all, this is a WAR?!

Will they meet the same fate as RTS? The only remaining voice of "the other side in this war" is coming over the Internet. Is world`s only toll-free media going to be censored by cutting Yugoslav links from the rest of the world? Are the people of the world going to loose the
opportunity to see both sides of the story and to make educated
conclusions? The question that remains is ""Are we, the Internet
media, now NATO's targets?