Volleyball Wars - Revival of Hate Speech in Serbia
Ivo Skoric
ivo at balkansnet.org
Thu Mar 31 16:42:09 CEST 2005
http://www.mediaonline.ba/en/?ID=358
While the war between Croatia and Serbia is long over, the fights
between sports fans are just as fierce as they were in the beginning
of the 1990s. But then, British soccer fans do not change their
proneness to violence with generations, either. What is different in
Serbia is the behavior of the media. Unlike in Britain (or in
Croatia) the media in Serbia became a mouthpiece for such behavior -
to an extent advocating and promoting it, just as they did in the
1990-s, when that was indeed a common practice among all state-run
media in all post-Yugoslav societies. This time around Serbian media
are doing it from purely opportunistic standpoint: hate speech sells
well. But it is incendiary, it can poison the relations among post-
Yugoslav countries, and, therefore needs to be stopped.
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