In an editorial headlined "How Long Will Real Problems Be Shunned?" in the weekly's latest double issue, Ivan Miklenic says the media this summer have been focused on the new law on traffic, how much alcohol will be allowed for drivers, the scandal surrounding the government's intentions to award a job to the Bechtel company, and on the final verdict of the Hague tribunal in the case of General Tihomir Blaskic, which serves as a basis for petty-political polemics, as if the real problems of everyday life of the Croatian people did not exist.
Miklenic believes that "all of this is happening too systematically and intensively to be regarded as accidental."
"The responsible persons who do not solve real problems and power-mongers who actually do not want to see real problems being solved regularly resort to acts of averting attention from those problems," Miklenic writes, adding that in this intention those persons "find allies among some media workers, either through buying them by paying them certain amounts of euros or through blackmailing or coaxing them in other ways".
Later in the editorial he cites the issues of development of rural areas and demographic topics as the real problems which should be tackled by politicians and law-making bodies as well as by the media.