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An analysis of the performance of the U.S. media during Yugoslavia's dissolution.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Approaching the Media Elites and Audiences Values Types Technique Performance Stereotypes: Croats and Muslims Stereotypes: Serbs Legal and Moral Issues A Truly International Conflict End Games Bibliography Index

About the Author

JAMES J. SADKOVICH is an independent scholar. He is the author of The Italian Navy during World War II (Greenwood, 1994).

Reviews

"Sadkovich has written an important book which makes a major contribution toward correcting some of the disinformation and confusion in much of the American media and among many American scholars where the recent Yugoslav War is concerned....This book should be read not only by scholars, but also by journalists and politicians."-Sabrina P. Ramet Professor of International Studies University of Washington

"Sadkovich's book makes him one of that small group of committed commentators who believe that what happened in the Balkans [in the 1990s] actually matters. He provides a committed, almost forensic, investigation into how the West so easily managed to come to terms with the reappearance of genocide in Europe. This book punctures many of the conceits which allowed the West to believe that it was doing all it could do to stop the killing. Sadkovich shows that actually the West did as little as possible...[and] how the West could get away with doing as little as possible. This is an important book. It should be read by everyone who cares about what happened in the Balkans. But, much more importantly, it ought to be read by all of those media workers, intellectuals, and bureaucrats who allowed genocide to occur without a whimper of protest."-Keith Tester Professor of Social Theory University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

"Sadkovich has compiled a truly masterly assessment of the US media's biased and generally inept, if perhaps well-intentioned, efforts to make sense of [the unraveling of Yugoslavia]. What emerges is a searing indictment of the manner in which American media -- press, radio, and television -- go about reporting information, layered with bias, stereotypes, agenda-setting, and judgmental ethnic evaluations of morality. A useful bibliography and chapter notes provide a valuable mine of information. Recommended for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty."-Choice

?James Sadkovich has produced a book that makes an important contribution to the field of Balkan studies.?-Journal of Croatian Studies

?Sadkovich has compiled a truly masterly assessment of the US media's biased and generally inept, if perhaps well-intentioned, efforts to make sense of [the unraveling of Yugoslavia]. What emerges is a searing indictment of the manner in which American media -- press, radio, and television -- go about reporting information, layered with bias, stereotypes, agenda-setting, and judgmental ethnic evaluations of morality. A useful bibliography and chapter notes provide a valuable mine of information. Recommended for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.?-Choice

?This is an important book. It should be read by everyone who cares about what happened in the Balkans. But, much more importantly, it ought to be read by all those media workers, intellectuals, and bureaucrats who allowed genocide to occur without a whimper of protest.?-Bulletin of the Association for Croatian Studies

"James Sadkovich has produced a book that makes an important contribution to the field of Balkan studies."-Journal of Croatian Studies

"This is an important book. It should be read by everyone who cares about what happened in the Balkans. But, much more importantly, it ought to be read by all those media workers, intellectuals, and bureaucrats who allowed genocide to occur without a whimper of protest."-Bulletin of the Association for Croatian Studies