Journalism Is Dead. Klan Kosova Pulled the Trigger.

Klan Kosova isn’t a media outlet. It’s a gilded bunker for oligarchs masquerading as journalists, waging war on truth while prostituting public trust.

In the fog-bound domain of post-war reconstruction, Kosovo was once the West’s darling an emblem of humanitarian intervention and a laboratory of democratic engineering. Billions flowed in. Think tanks drew maps of political reform. Embassies offered seminars on civil society. The flag, six stars, a golden Kosovo on deep blue was hoisted with fanfare. The narrative, shaped in Brussels and polished in Washington, proclaimed that Kosovo was not only sovereign but exemplary. The reality now, some seventeen years since its declaration of independence, is far darker and far more embarrassing.

In the dim corridors of Kosovo’s media sector, truth has long been trampled by wealth. But recent investigations¹ into Klan Kosova, a flagship broadcaster owned by the Devolli brothers: Blerim and Shkëlqim, reveal something still more sinister: a privatised propaganda machine that operates not only in defiance of journalistic ethics but in naked contempt for democratic integrity. Theirs is not a media …