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lnformation Agency, was mentioned, as well as that Zoran Jotii had him "on the
uldron". The defendant wrote down the content of the conversation, after which she
returned to the newsroom and spoke with the editor-in-chief, and bearing in mind that it is a
topic that is important to the public, they decided to write a text about it. As it was about
reporting from the trial, the transmission of information had to be fast due to competition
with other media, which is not the case with investigative journalism. ln such cases, the
defendants do not call the persons mentioned at the trial, but in this particular case they
decided to contact the plaintiff because of the claims made durlng the proceedings. The
defendant was the author of the text, and the defendant Stevan Dojiinovii edited the text.
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he title of the text was given jointly by the defendant and the ed itor-in-chief. The defendant
Milica vojtnovii tried to contact the plaintiff by sending an email to the BlA, then by calling
the BIA's number from the lnternet, but she did not get in touch with the plaintiff until late at
ni8ht. For the above reasons, the publication ofthe text was postponed untilthe next day and
the text was published in the morning. Later in the day,
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the defendant contacted the plaintiff, who did not want to make any comments. ln the
aforementioned part, the court accepted the testimony ofthe defendant, assessing it as clear,
for the reason that it represents the defendant's explanation of the manner in which the text
in question was published, the title of the text itself, and the defendant's attempt to contact
the plaintiff.
text "i.e. on the payroll of the
well-known criminal from Kruievac Zoran Jotii Jotka" are not quotes from wiretapped
conversations, but paraphrased words of what Zoraja said, while the expression "to be on the
cauldron" represents a phrase that means that a person receives money from someone.
The defendant further stated that the words from the
From the testimony ofthe defendant Stevan Dojdinovi6, it was established that he, as
ed ito r-in-ch ief, together with the defendant journalist, formulated the text the day after she
attended the trial in the criminal proceedings from which she was reportinS, that despite the
fact that there was a danger that other media would publish the text as a report from the
trial, the text published at 6 o'clock the next morning, and that according to the transcripts
that the defendants have, what was quoted in the text was also stated at the trial. The
expression "on the cauldron" is used and its meaning is generally known, and the defendants
have fu rth er clarified it.
ofthe defendant Stevan Dojdinovii,
considering that in terms of the way the subject text was created, givin8 the title to the text
and the defendant,s interpretation of the expression "to be on the cauldron", it was in
accordance with the testimony of the defendant Milica Vojinovii.
ln the said part, the court accepted the testimony
with the established factual situation, the conclusion of this court
claim is pa rtially founded.
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that the plaintiff's
Article 5 of the Law on Public lnformation and the Media stipulates that i
ideas and opinions about phenomens and events and persons about which the
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