Председнички избори у САД 1968. године и београдска штампа
U.S. Presidential Elections in 1968 and the Belgrade Press

Summary/Abstract: This article thoroughly examines reports and comments Belgrade press made about American presidential elections in 1968. Sources used were most prominent and influential of the Belgrade Press: three leading daily newspapers and four weekly newspapers (one of them being only weekend edition of one of the daily newspapers and one - The Communist - being included as indubitably ideologically ‘correct’). It is shown that analyzed press was profoundly interested in all aspect of the campaign. It followed not only leading candidates as Nixon and Humphrey, but Wallace, McCarthy and Robert Kennedy as well. Belgrade press looked to foreign as well as domestic impacts of presidential elections and campaign. The sheer number of texts reveals extraordinary interest of the Belgrade public for the subject, yet profound analyses they mostly contain show even deeper reflections of American politics and the American political system in general. Considering this was a period of great unpopularity of American engagement in the Vietnam War and, furthermore, ideological and political differences between the United States and Yugoslavia, enormous interest shown is indicative for both freedom of press in socialist Yugoslavia and its genuine democratic tendencies. This raises a question of very nature of socialist regime in Yugoslavia in late sixties.

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