Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia: An overview of their relations according to print and electronic media from 2008 and 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia: An overview of their relations according to print and electronic media from 2008 and 2015

Summary/Abstract: Media represent the most important component of media culture and have a huge influence in the contemporary world in general due to their direct role in the process of creating value scales or criteria according to which events or processes in our everyday life are evaluated. The authors of the paper intend to present an approach and writing style that print and electronic media in B&H used to cover a range on topics about geopolitical relations between B&H and Russia. In this paper, we will present results of the comparative analysis of the texts about Russia in two most widely read daily newspapers in B&H from different entities, Glas Srpske and Dnevni avaz, the values and interests mirrored at the audience and finally the analysis of the contents broadcasted in central news on two entity public broadcasters, RTRS /Radio and Television of Republic of Srpska/ and RTV FB&H / Federal Radio and Television/ about British Resolution on Srebrenica which at the session of the UN Security Council from July 8th 2015 did not gain support of its permanent members. The analysis of the informative approach of two entity public broadcasters towards this event shows how people’s opinions and behavior can be successfully influenced Media have impact on the daily news, that is, they determine the type of reports covered and in published in everyday news, but they also ‘frame’ some of the topics by taking a certain angle of looking at the events.

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