FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
‘A Good Day’, said Nato on 14 May, when it killed at least 87 ethnic Albanian refugees in the village of Korisa, and injured a hundred more. What would constitute a ‘bad day’ for Nato? The bullish response was part of an increasingly strident propaganda campaign in which each new bloody ‘accident’ is offset by […]
In its war against Yugoslavia, Nato has tried to silence all debate, criticism and dissent. The most grotesque instance of this was the bombing of the Serbian television building, killing an estimated 10 civilians and injuring dozens more. Prime Minister Tony Blair described this as ‘entirely justified’. The attack was allegedly carried out in the […]
Since Vietnam, news management has been a key preoccupation of governments at war. But in today’s information-rich environment the flow of news is far more difficult to control. Via the Internet, you can now read both Yugoslav and Albanian commentaries and reports on the crisis in Kosovo, as well as accessing American and European news […]
It takes two sides to fight a propaganda war, yet critical commentary on the “war of words” has so far concentrated on the “tightly controlled” Yugoslav media. We have been shown clips from “Serb TV” and invited to scoff at their patriotic military montages, while British journalists cast doubt on every Yugoslav “claim”. But whatever […]
