CIVIL WAR AND DEMOCRACY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MEDIA: THE CASE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
CIVIL WAR AND DEMOCRACY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MEDIA: THE CASE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this paper is on the media portrayal of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which took place at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, as well as the consequences that arose from it. Although the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the twilight of socialist Yugoslavia, decently accompanied the establishment of a multi-party system, as one of the preconditions of democracy, the insistence on political communication by the actors of public life within the media failed to prevent, stop or even reduce the production of national hatred, which resulted in war. Not even a quarter of a century after the end of the war, the situation is not great, the media still serves to bribe, maintain a state of latent intolerance and manipulate citizens.

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