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An 8 page research paper that examines the media coverage of the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999. The writer compares the coverage of the BBC and New York Times, and discusses what was happening with journalism in Kosovo at that time, as well as how new technology and globalization has impacted war journalism. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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situations a concern of others, the forces of globalization have also connected the worlds interests economically. Therefore, how events are presented in the media, i.e. whether or not coverage is
even-handed, biased, censored, or a product of government propaganda is a matter of crucial interest for world audiences who are trying to make sense of what they see, read and
hear in the media. However, analyzing what goes on in the media can sometimes be problematic despite the huge resources in the World Wide Web and the Internet.
For example, in attempting to analyze the coverage of the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo, it is problematic to find news archives in regional Slavic newspapers that go back
to 1999 and are in English. Why this situation exists is alluded to in a 2000 article by a Serbian journalist Dragoljub Zarkovic. It appears that after the NATO
bombing, there was considerable criticism of independent media in Yugoslavia, which -- if it remained in business during the hostilities -- had to accept the "rigorous conditions of government censorship"
(Zarkovic, 2000, p. 79). In defending this capitulation, Zarkovic points out that the independent media in the region had been battling Milosevic and his genocidal policies for quite sometime before
the bombing. Zarkovic was the editor of VREME, a weekly magazine, at the time. He states that he accepted the censorship because, first of all, he and
his staff were unwilling to abandon their readers to pure propaganda (from either side), and they considered it unfair to turn their backs on their readership. Furthermore, it was felt
that the war would go on for months without solving the political problems of Kosovo (2000). Looking back later at the "dangerous reality" of the time, Zarkovic argues that those
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