Kosovo-Serbia: Media Biases
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Kosovo-Serbia: Media Biases
C R I S I S W E B N E W S
Tuesday January 26, 1999
ICG YUGOSLAVIA
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ICG's latest report, "Fear and Loathing in Belgrade" (January 26),
examines how Serbia's state and pro-regime media have portrayed the
Kosovars since the crisis in Kosovo escalated in February 1998.
Understanding how Kosovo's Albanian population is depicted in the
Serbian state-run and pro-regime media provides an insight into
Belgrade's plans to resolve tensions within the province.
-->> See http://www.crisisweb.org for details
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IN THE COUNTRY OF VIRTUAL REALITY
Welcome to Media Focus 6 - IWPR's bi-weekly electronic service
analysing the media in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Produced by
the Institute for War & Peace Reporting in London, Media Focus is
published in both English and Serbian in e-mail and hard-copy.
Media coverage of events in and surrounding Racak will be analysed in
Media Focus 7. In this issue we follow reaction to the "CIA secret
document" unveiled last week by Serbia's three deputy prime ministers
who used it to vilify a group of "domestic traitors" and "foreign
hirelings"
The fact that the document was actually written by a senior fellow at
the United States Institute for Peace and has been available on the
foundation's Web site since December 12, was not allowed to get in the
way of the state media's pursuit of a good story. As B-92 suggetsed,
worryingly, the affair might well be the prelude to a full scale
attack on dissent of any kind.
On Kosovo, we report how the pro-state media downplayed last week's
hostage crisis precipitated after eight Yugoslav soldiers stumbled on
a KLA roadblock. While the same media blamed the KLA for the death of
Enver Maloku, Rugova's close friend and aide, the Albanian-language
media for its part, made little attempt to exploit the killing for
propaganda purposes.
Away from both Kosovo and the CIA, we also turn our attention toward
examing how the media see the economic health of the country at the
end of the financial and calendar year.
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(ICTY). Tribunal Update 108 was published yesterday.
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