Coverage of the Kosovo Crisis by the Balkan Press: Old Stereotypes and Birth of Regional Consciousness
Occasional Papers, 1998
ACCESS Association, Sofia
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(Language: English)

Kosovo as a Media War: Perspectives
In the Balkan Press
Occasional Papers, 1999
ACCESS Association, Sofia
No ISSN
(Language: English)

The two issues of the Occasional Papers analyze the media situation in the most trouble-making region in Europe, the Balkans. These reviews of the press coverage of Kosovo crisis by the press in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia, based on daily monitoring, present an effort to draw the attention of the Balkan public to the dangerous discrepancies in the presentation of the facts.

The authors (researchers in political and social sciences, NGO experts and journalists in the mainstream media of the Balkan countries) try to make readers familiar not only with what is happening on the Balkans, but also with the different Balkan perspectives on current social and political development.

The Occasional Papers make an interesting investigation about the question “why?” in the political behaviour of the Balkan nations. It is a meaning question as far as it has all too often been given inaccurate, incorrect or downright untrue answers, which have caused more suffering for everybody in the Balkans.

The two Papers provide the opportunity to compare the suggestions of the media in the countries in the region before and during the war. The reader will most probably find that the war was highly predictable a year before it started.