MEDIJSKA PREZENTACIJA ZAVNOBIH-a U PERIODU 1995.-2017.
MEDIA PRESENTATION OF ZAVNOBIH IN THE PERIOD 1995-2017

Author(s): Željka Poloni
Subject(s): Media studies, Political history, Social history, Nationalism Studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: ZAVNOBIH; Bosnia and Herzegovina; journalistic ethics; sources of information; reports; antifascism; nationality; legislation;
Summary/Abstract: This essay comparatively examines explanations of ZAVNOBIH subject in between 1995 – 2017. From the end of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina until today the policy of media in Bosnia has dual and politically coordinated reporting. The powerful interference of international community into media field, was heading more towards establishment of free media and the prevention of hateful speech, rather than to preclude the creation of ethnonational “free” media that were used to empower ethnic separations. Consequently, reporting on this topic is often divided into media outlets, according to which ethnic group the media belongs to. The result is a sharply divided public discourse, in general, about the ZAVNOBIH in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This article critically analyzes the ways in which ZAVNOBIH is written in the daily news papers. The analysis generaly is divided into two parts, in the first, examples of a neutral and / or objective speech on the ZAVNOBIH are shown, and the other ones are the clauses containing negative context of open attempt and shameless falsification of history, without objective approach. Here, the great estattentionis dedicated to propaganda against ZAVNOBIH, because in one part of local media, it is politically created and is the most common form of writing about this topic.

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