The "Usce" business centre which was bombed by the aggressor last night, was the location of several radio and TV stations. "Kosava" the most popular radio and TV station among the young, which is situated in that building, stopped broadcasting its programme immediately after the bombing, Tanjug reported, while the "Pink" and "BK" private television channels, which broadcast their programmes using the transmitters situated on the roof of the building, had a black out. The SOS sports channel was also the target of the aggressor, its technical department having also been situated in the Usce Business Centre just like other TV centres that broadcast mainly entertainment programmes as well as Radio "S". Ceda Stankovic, technical director of TV "Pink" said in an interview for our newspaper that the "main line" for broadcasting the programme was cut off, however he expected that TV "Pink" would be visible again in several hours. He added that the material damage was huge, but that the most important thing was that none of the people working there was injured.

NATO has targeted at the Yugoslav media since the beginning of the aggression against our country. Several transmitters of the Radio Television of Serbia have been destroyed, and NATO's generals have threatened several times that they would strike also the building of RTV of Serbia in Takovska street. If the column of Albanian refugees could have been declared "a legitimate military target", than it is no wonder that NATO's bombs have started falling down on TV transmitters, and even on radio and TV stations that have been broadcasting mainly American films over the past weeks, such as "Hair", "Nixon", "Deer Hunters"... and sports programmes, including transmitions of the protest concerts on the Belgrde Freedom Square.

The leading persons of the media companies that have been the target of the most powerful military force on the planet were shocked by the yesterday's scene. While black smoke kept gushing out of the business tower, and flames devoured precious equipment, they pointed out that what the aggressor had struck was actually a small-scale town that housed several thousand employees. They could not believe that the target of the deadly missiles would also be TV entertainment programmes, which do not interfere with politics. However, they stated that they would find a way to reach their viewers with both TV images and words.

Media war has been an unavoidable accompaniment of the armed conflicts up to now; we remember the rigged "television" events in Sarajevo ("Markale", "Vasa Miskin street") then the events in Kosovo (the poisoning of Albanian children, Albanian women's protests, who lit up candles in front of CNN cameramen, mass graves), but that war was waged using the instruments of the media. This is evidently the first time that NATO, which is claimed, by many, to be a military wing of the CNN, has started a media war in which it is using arms to strike media desks.