Feral Saga Continues

More info (and quotes) on the Feral Tribune.

Feral Tribune

Via the always informative Yakima Gulag Literary Gazett, some bad news, one of the best independent news papers in the Balkans, The Feral Tribune, is shutting down.

BIRN update

BIRN's latest edition is now available.

LGBTQ and the BiH Media

I found this study online several months ago; but I really couldn't find any topical news story to tie it into. It is from a few years ago, but it still is an absolutely fascinating study on the analysis of how the L/G/B/T community is portrayed in the Bosnian media; including both "serious" news sources and more "entertainment" news sources.

Read the study here
The study is in PDF format.

Serbia has no reason to celebrate

Those reading the newspaper headlines in Serbia in the days after the UN’s highest court cleared the republic of genocide charges could hardly believe that they were all talking about the same verdict.

"Serbia is innocent!" proclaimed the Belgrade tabloid Kurir, a day after the International Court of Justice, ICJ, judgment on February 26.

"Serbia was cleared of genocide charges," declared the pro-government Politika daily.

While the liberal daily Danas pronounced, “Serbia was not found innocent."

It’s not just the press in Serbia who had differing views on the ICJ verdict - politicians and analysts also cannot agree whether the ruling gave Serbia more reasons to celebrate than to worry.

(Even without being identified, I could guess which headline belonged to Kurir. ;-) )

Read the full article here.

A Balkanized Verdict

From Time Magazine:

The court has spoken but, in issuing a Balkanized verdict — with a little bit for every party — it has allowed nothing to change in the Balkans.

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Media Headlines

The interesting thing of a compromise verdict is not only that everyone can have a part of the verdict to agree or disagree with (or maybe even to agree or disagree with the entire judgment); but to see how the newspaper headlines cover such a mixed verdict, and what aspect they focused on, since there were many aspects of the verdict. Just a preliminary running of the headlines, most headlines focused on the acquittal on the genocide charge; with a good chunk also focusing on the failing to prevent and punish genocide.


Just a few sample headlines...


"Serbia not guilty in genocide trial."


"Serbia cleared of genocide charge over killing 8,000 at Srebrenica."

"Serbia Failed To Prevent Genocide."

and a headline which actually seems to get most factors of the verdict in the headline: "Serbia not directly guilty of Bosnian genocide, but failed to prevent it."


or this headline: "Serbia cleared in genocide, to a point."