Later in the day, Margetic held a news conference claiming that the entire editorial board was exposed to political pressure.
Margetic pointed the finger at Croatian President Stjepan Mesic claiming that last week Mesic had "asked the government and Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic to stop participating in financing Hrvatsko Slovo due to its editorial policy".
Margetic said the weekly's director, Stjepan Seselj, bowed to the pressure and asked editors for the change in the editorial policy and "discontinuation of attacks against and presentation of Stjepan Mesic in a negative light".
He labelled this as the gross violation of media rights and freedoms. He also accused Seselj of financial wrongdoings.
President Mesic gave an interview to the latest issue of a weekly 'Feral Tribune' in which he has said that "the fact that Hrvatsko Slovo writes nonsense is less important that the the fact that it persistently writes lies and that its production of lies is persistently financed by the state". Mesic, among other things, commented on Hrvatsko Slovo's report that he financed the harbouring of Bosnian Serb war crimes indictees, Radoslav Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, which he branded as something incredulous.