Original scientific paper

Yugoslavia's Image in Western Newspapers

Nenad Mirović ; Institute for the Economy of Agriculture and Rural Sociology, Novi Sad

Abstract

This text is part of the report on the research of Yugoslavia's image in Western newspapers, primarily in the Canadian news journals. Canadian newspapers have been chosen for sampling because they represent one of the Western world media-systems. In addition to the Canadian daily newspapers the articles from the New York Times and the London Times are analysed.
The analysis of the Canadian press reports on Yugoslavia in the period from 1977 to 1988 shows that ideological issues haven't greatly affected the approach towards Yugoslavia.
The author of this study has been motivated by the drive to uncover the Western news media's interpretation of the crisis in Yugoslavia. According to the author, much of the data collected suggests that North American papers have the same outlook upon the events in Yugoslavia. However, the viewpoint of the London Times differs considerably from that of the North American one. Instead of ascertaining that Yugoslavia needs a strong central government and a powerful leader, as is staled in the North American journals in the period analysed, the North European media mostly seem to lake on an extremely critical altitude towards the political rule of Serbia's League of Communists' leadership. A possible explanation can be found in the existing differences between the British government (perhaps even the European governments) on the one hand, and the North American governments on the other, regarding their politics towards the crisis in Yugoslavia

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Hrčak ID:

155381

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155381

Publication date:

31.3.1990.

Article data in other languages: serbian croatian

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