As you report, the media across former Yugoslavia are doing badly (“Troublesome Times,” April 12, 2014). Out of one-hundred and eighty countries in the Reporters without Borders’ ranking of press freedom this year, Slovenia comes thirty-fourth, Serbia fifty-fourth, Croatia sixty-fifth, and Macedonia one-hundred and twenty-third, while Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Kosovo fall someplace between Croatia and Macedonia. Many reporters from these countries face persecution. They report difficulties not only with political pressures, but also pressures from a wide variety of businesses, which are often close to political parties. All this is true enough, but journalists are not the only ones who are oppressed across former Yugoslavia. Far from it. Laws regulating libel and insult are regularly used against all citizens who dare to speak their minds, not only those from the media. The journalists’ lobby thus ought to take a wider view of oppression across former Yugoslavia. Perhaps this would help them establish closer ties with their readers and viewers, as well.