Kosovo Clooney and Metohija Sharon rumors fake

Posted 2008-01-22 22:35 under Politics by Viktor Marković / 10 comments

It sounded to good and to strange to be true anyway – but that didn’t stop bunch of blogs and even bigger bunch of “news” sites from reporting it without checking first – if we really got the Hollywood support on our side in Kosovo case or not.

Here’s our national TV reporting in prime time news how George Clooney will “organize a protest against Kosovo independepce” and here’s B92 biting into the story as if it’s nothing but the truth.

Then the blogosphere started making up their own stories and the rest is history…

Why do this without checking with the source first? It only makes us seem even more desperate, particularly when the truth comes out at the end.

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1. serb propaganda hater on 23/01/08 11:37 AM

   it’s the way serbian propaganda works.Pro-serbian blogs linking eachother just to spred propaganda.This is just a proof that serbs are not consurned about the facts,just lies to make themselfs feel better.

2. Viktor on 23/01/08 01:34 PM

   True. I only must add that blog propaganda is not reserved for Serbs only. Neither we discovered propaganda, and we are not so good in using it as some other nations, mind you. Propaganda is an interesting phenomena for me on global level, but since this is a local blog…
   Maybe we’ll become better in the future – I certainly am trying to spread my propaganda the best I can.

3. Cvijus on 23/01/08 04:55 PM

   What it is even more funny is that I am right now holding a newer edition of the Hamburg based newspaper “die Zeit” and there Clooney states that he supports Serbian efforts regarding Kosovo, but nevertheless no protest is mentioned. Weird

4. Ian Cresswell on 23/01/08 07:11 PM

   I’m still not 100% on what the truth is here.

   Correct me if I’m wrong, Clooney opposes UDI but isn’t planning on organising any demos about it. Were the Sean Connery quotes accurate as well? It seemed a little odd that he would support Scottish independence but be opposed to Albanian independence.

   I wonder how the rumour spread. Did Die Zeit get it wrong in the first place or was it a case of Chinese whispers and wishful thinking?

5. Cvijus on 23/01/08 07:45 PM

   Ian, actually Die Zeit did an interview with Clooney, it’s not like quoted from somewhere or something in that way. As for the Connery logic, I suppose it’s more like if Scotland doesn’t get independence, neither should Kosovo, as, let’s be honest, Scotland deserves more to be independent than Kosovo.

6. bganon on 24/01/08 09:42 PM

   Well I dont want to jump the gun but it seems to me that the rumours of Sharon Stone and Clooney being involved in some activity to defend the Serbian position is fake but not the fact that Clooney at least does support Serbia on Kosovo.
   Sharon Stone’s assistant has remained pretty cagey on what she believes although she was quoted in Evropa magazine as saying she supported Serbia on Kosovo.

   Anyway, we hope to have something on our tennis stars that are doing the business again this year – this time at the French Open so stay tuned.

7. Alan Jaksic on 24/01/08 11:20 PM

   One Dragan Grcic, who edits the “Blog de veille sur les droits de l’Homme en Serbie”, left me a comment at the end of my own blog post about this issue (See my blog post “Clooney & Hollywood for Kosovo in Serbia?” (Notice that I added a question mark to the title)), notifying me that the whole future protest against Kosovo’s UDI was false.

   Well, that came as a mild surprise. Oh well, I thought that was true too.

8. Dejan on 25/01/08 11:06 AM

   I loved how RTS kept reporting that George Clooney and his colleagues will start the campaign and whatnot. It turned out the colleagues are Sharon Stone (Hollywood “they”?). They kept giving us pictures of some unrelated event, presenting it as if Clooney organized an event to announce that to media.

   Good ol’ RTS. Once totalitarian overly-silly propaganda machine, always totalitarian overly-silly propaganda machine. And I pay subscription fees every fucking month :(

   UBR: Viktor, captcha is totally unreadable. Takes me 3 or 4 tries to submit the comment :(

9. Viktor on 25/01/08 06:52 PM

   Cvijus, any new info? I would really like to get to the bottom of this.
   Latest I found out was that the UN, according to Blic unnamend sources, forced Clooney to deny his statement.
   Alan, thanks for the info and for discovering new blogs to our readers.
   Dejan, captcha helps us distingish persistant from unpersistant people. :)
   Seriously, though, I don’t think i can do anything about it. I think installing this one was a great achievement for me and my “programming” skills in the first place.

10. Cvijus on 26/01/08 01:07 PM

    Viktor, I’ve got no new info. In the interview for “Die Zeit” Clooney just vaguelly stated that he supports Serbian efforts on Kosovo, however he mentions no protests or anything of that kind. About the UN forcing Clooney, sounds hilarious but I don’t know. I guess the whole problem is not whether Clooney stated that he supports Serbia, but whether he will organize a protest or not. My personal opinion is that in the global politics other issues have priority, seen from the fact that in the summer I suppose, Bush and Putin agreed to hand over the Kosovo issue to secondary diplomacy. Thus, I doubt that any Hollywood actor that probably supports Serbia would use his publicity for a secondary issue.