Mediji, politika i pravo informiranja na vlastitom jeziku
Media, politics and the right to be informed in the own language

Summary/Abstract: The paper will speak about social, political and legal aspects of justifiability of establishing RTV channel in Croatian. “Media imperialism”, conducted by politics and subordinated means of informing, appears in complex countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Consequence of that is collective media non-equality of nations and thus individual nonequality of citizens. Such example can be found only in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which politics of the most numerous nation thinks that the realization of the right of the least numerous nation to has a separate television channel in their own language would represent violation of their vital national interests. Media non-equality produces double negative consequences. From one side it produces lack of information or lack of correct information and from the other side it commits violence against information users forcing them to listen to news in some other language, which they do not understand or do not watch gladly. News are very often released deliberately from certain powers’ centre and directed against vital interests of their nations. That is exactly what is happening to Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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