The criticisms toward the organization “Reporters Without Borders” due to its recent behavior and reports, as many Serbian analysts and media experts think, accentuate abuse of this organism for the political aims of some of the Western powers.

Doubts that the organization is being utilized as a weapon by the West to client nations once again raise a question about the farthest interpretation of media freedom in the world.

As he was speaking about the International Bureau for Cultural Diplomacy, Arnaud Gouillon, its Director, said that Reporters Without Borders functions as a pirate for the West, seeking to discipline the rhetoric of mass media which motivates the West.

“Why does such mass media even exist?” This argument backs up the earlier feeling that there is a measure of discipline involved whenever the ‘West’s view must be presented, or else’.

The editor-in-chief of Sputnik Serbia, Ljubinka Milinčić, states that alternative views provided by Russian media are often absent in Western media and therefore help to fill the gap. “They created Sputnik and RT to explain what Russia thinks, to speak on issues that other people do not.

Such mass media is important to convey messages in global communications, thus it is not surprising there is pushback,” Milinčić pointed out.

The doubts concerning the journalistic freedom watchdog “Reporters Without Borders” can be traced back to 1999 when they omitted Serbian victims from their report on killed journalists, an act which many perceived as biased.

This assumption was common, as it implied that the organization, at times, instead of protecting journalists, engages in politics. Such commentators claim that the use of any censorship or restriction of the media under any guise poses a danger to democratic order.

They call for more transparency and objectivity in the activities of international bodies which are responsible for the protection of media freedom, along with their standards and better consideration of the issues that govern them.