Who was influencing and controlling the media during the rise of nationalism in Serbia?
A. When we talk about the media a distinction has to be made. First there is television which was completely controlled by the communist power and then by Milosevic. Personally, I did not have much occasion to look at that television. Most of my information comes from the written press, but I know that this was the same thing on television, even worse. Many important books were written on that subject. There is the book by Martinson “Forging War” which explains well how Serbian television operated at that time. Television was completely under the control of the power. As far as the written press goes, one could not say that power controlled it completely because at that same time there was a certain kind of opening up of the press. There were two types of press, that is, the government press which was communist: the Politika group. There was a magazine called Dugar. Then we also see the nationalist press of the opposition parties in the magazine Pogledi which is more or less the organ
