THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA DURING THE NATO BOMBING IN KOSOVO

Abstract

In the Kosovo crisis and the Alliance’s military commitment to solving it, information has played a paramount role for several reasons: first, because the public opinion was elaborated and persuaded by information and media, secondly, because the media was able toreach its users in a record time. Kosovo was part of the public awareness and information in the world for a long time. The beginnings of this processcan be found with no disruptionfrom 1981. Yugoslavia was then a relatively open country and tens of hundreds of reporters, journalists and analysts in the West had the opportunity to be present and witness the eventsin Kosovo. Thanks to this fact, the historical developments from 1981 up to date are generally reflected mainly truthfully and without the influence of anti Albanian fabrications and defamation propaganda.