Balkan Media
  
 


Outline

Introduction
UN report about Balkan media
Balk. nations as seen by Serbian media
Media in Kosovo
Bad media

 

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Here we’ll show some report of different organizations about the way the media in the Balkans show the information to the public and especially the youth. Knowing that our age is more conditioned by things they hear in the news and by adults.

      UN report about the electronic and written media in the Balkans
     
The main source of this report is an extended text by the UN Commission on Human Rights, about the media in the former Yugoslavia. Some of the points of that report are:
  • The nationalism tendencies of the written and electronic media in the former Yugoslav republics.
  • Restrictions on freedom of the media (in areas controlled by the Government).
  • Monopolies.
  • Media freedom on risk.

This information regard many countries of the Balkans, and at the end, there are conclusions and some advices for the media and governments. It is worth reading it.

Read it here
      The image of tha Balkan nations in the Serbain media
     


The next article is written by Jovan Teokarevic, and he tells us about what does the serbian media tell people (serbian people) about the Balkan nations during the period of October 1994 - March 1995.

Read it here

      Media in Kosovo
     


The Haradinaj Case: the Kosovar media rashomon

This article talks about an accident between two armed groups. In this accident was injured a former general of the KLA. The information reported in this article was insufficient and contradictory.

This is another demonstration of how the media in the Balkan is reporting the actual situation and gives wrong opinions to the readers. And this is not an isolated case of misinformation

Read it here
      Bad media
     


And at last, there is an article of the Baltimore City Paper about "the news that didn't make the news in 1999". This doesn't refer just to Balkan countries, but it talks for the media in general, all over the world

Read it here

 

 

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24 November, 2000
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