Journalistic heroine
About striving for absolute freedom.
Jasna Babić was a Croatian journalistic heroine and ideal of the journalistic profession. She lived for her work and was a liberal in the true sense of the word. She froze agency journalism as soon as she saw that it was becoming industrial. She considered the new practice, according to which editors insist on writing funded and predictable articles, as degrading. She believed that her profession was destroyed by planning and because of this, towards the end of her life, she wrote exclusively for fees.
Always consistent with herself and her vision of her profession, she explained her choice for HND by saying: - You can only be rich if you have nothing or if you are filthy rich. If you're filthy rich, then you can become Soros and finance projects you care about, or you can be free like me and as poor as a church mouse. When you don't care at all, when they have nothing left to take from you. With the fact that my life would not look any different if I were as rich as Soros! –
After years of observing the political life of both countries, she concluded that Croatia is a boring country. Not because nothing happens in it, all kinds of things happened every day, but because people remained the same in depth. She thought that Croatian politics lacked content - how unfair and absurd it was that former communist leaders became capitalists, and she criticized editors and managers who spill phrases and who forever swear by the abstract phrase of the common good.
And everything she did was really meaningful. Always focused on the public interest, Jasna exposed criminals, wrote about the mafia, murders, war criminals... Her favorite topic was the Croatian political scene, and she was the first to coin the term "criminal organization" for the largest Croatian political party.
Jasna is gone, but her legacy remains. She was one of the few who did not fear for her existence, the truth was always the most important thing to her and she became great in her courage.
