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00:27In elementary school, Denis was a quiet, quiet and calm child.
00:33Although he was very ambitious, he was the president of the class,
00:37the generator of all the actions that took place in our school.
00:43He always sat in the front row,
00:47he always raised his hand in the air, spoke for himself,
00:50he was always ready, he knew all the wrong verbs in French by heart.
00:54Zorica Antulov has known him for 25 years.
00:58There was always a crowd around him,
01:01all the girls who were the most attractive in the school,
01:05they followed him, he was a great charmer.
01:08Under the charm was an iron ambition.
01:11As a 16-year-old in the journalism department of high school,
01:14he applied for the position of a writer of Slobodna Dalmatija from Rodne Vodice.
01:18Already in the first texts about the communal problems of Vodice,
01:22unusually sharp for the beginning of the 80s, he confused the politicians.
01:26Ilija Marsic was his first editor.
01:29One day, the late Kulusic comes and asks him,
01:32where did you find Denis Latin?
01:35And I say, one of his children, Brtica, in the Siberian press,
01:39and he says, he has the articles of a politician.
01:42And I say, what is it? And he says, it's good, keep it.
01:46In the middle of the 80s, he came to Zagreb and started studying
01:50political science, still writing for Slobodna.
01:53As a student, he started working as a reporter in the Zagreb Panorama.
01:57He was not interested in surface reporting,
02:00and he got into investigative journalism.
02:03He made a report about some properties
02:06through the Socialist Union, which were very smelly,
02:09and that report was excellent, I liked it.
02:11But, of course, there were too many storms,
02:14so he was suspended, he was suspended by SaŔa,
02:17and I was suspended.
02:19In 1990, he followed the first multilateral elections.
02:22Thus, in tandem with journalist SaÅ”a MiloÅ”ević,
02:25he talked to Stjepan Mesić.
02:28Do you know how much a liter of milk costs?
02:31I don't know, I have to ask my wife.
02:33In the 90s, at the age of 24, he became the youngest editor of TV Dnevnik.
02:37Good evening.
02:38Good evening.
02:40In July, the Central Committee of the HDP of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
02:43A war broke out.
02:45Along with reporting from the war zones of Croatia,
02:48he made this video with his colleagues.
02:50My homeland,
02:55it has the strength of a golden shield,
02:58and the power of a sea of colors,
03:01my motherland of Croatia.
03:06He accepted to organize the show with a picture on a picture,
03:10and then in 1993, the latinica started.
03:13The first show that was organized, I was an editor even then,
03:16it was very bad for me,
03:19because it consisted only of a bunch of guests,
03:22who fought, who shouted,
03:24and he thought that it was enough for a good show.
03:26At the beginning, the show was casual, like right after the war,
03:29and then he started to deal with more serious topics.
03:32Some latinicas were even banned.
03:34This annoyed him, so he left,
03:36together with the show, to the production house TV Mreža.
03:39But because, as he says, of a bad treatment,
03:42unpaid money and disconnection of the network, he returned to HTV.
03:44The latinica went on.
03:47Since 2000, with the new management of the house,
03:50he says, there were no more bans.
03:52However, he often intends that the guests in the show
03:55mostly have a stand that suits him,
03:58and that they attack people who are not there.
04:00He organized a media lynch on me,
04:02he invited people to smoke on me for two hours in his show,
04:05and he didn't give me the opportunity to defend, he didn't invite me.
04:08Jesenas raised a big media dust again,
04:10showing in the form of a latinica
04:13a controversial documentary about Lujan Krajina.
04:16On one side were, I don't know, Mr. Olujic and Maja Fronnik,
04:20and all the others defended the other side, which was unacceptable.
04:24The non-representation of both sides,
04:26he often expresses his own political determination,
04:29which is not good for public television,
04:31thinks a member of the Viječa Croatian Radio Television.
04:34He can be offended, but I simply see
04:37his victorious laugh, which is not good.
04:40When he opens a topic that most people do not agree with,
04:45but you have to open it, or maybe it is important for a minority,
04:48then the public reacts wrongly and accuses Denis
04:52of opening topics that are anti-Croatian,
04:55that are pro-Yugoslavian, but in fact he opens topics
04:58that need to be discussed.
05:00A week ago, the Croatian Journalist Association
05:02chose him as the best journalist in 2000.
05:05It can often be heard that the HTV information program
05:08lost a lot to his departure to the entertainment program,
05:12but most agree that the Croatian public space is at stake.
05:16And so, regardless of whether NATO liked him or hated him,
05:19watched Latin rarely or every time,
05:21everyone wonders what the topic of the next show is.