Marton Dunai’s Dangerous Oversight: Journalism at the Expense of Truth

Western media’s failure to grasp Kosovo’s reality fuels misinformation. Dunai’s biased reporting emboldens Serbia’s destabilisation while undermining Kosovo’s sovereignty and the truth itself.

Marton Dunai's¹ latest piece in the Financial Times on Kosovo’s elections is not just misleading; it is an alarming example of how Western journalists have increasingly allowed themselves to become complicit in narratives that distort reality. In a region fraught with historical grievances and ongoing tensions, responsible journalism demands nuance, depth, and an informed understanding of language, culture, and geopolitical dynamics. Dunai, however, has fallen into the potholes of misinformation, failing to meet these basic journalistic standards.

In his article², Dunai claims that Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, used the Albanian word "hayvan" as a derogatory term to refer to his political opponents as "animals." This is a gross misinterpretation of the language and cultural context. As I have extensively detailed in my previous piece³, “Në një peizazh mediatik ku saktësia dhe konteksti duhet të jenë shtylla kryesore e gazetarisë,” the word "hayvan," borrowed from Turkish, does not…