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U.S. Media Coverage of Srebrenica ✱ In none of the articles is it suggested that the United States and its NATO allies have any interest in the Balkans except as honest brokers and peace-makers pained by ethnic cleansing. They are regularly portrayed as mainly good-hearted but ineffectual bunglers, who failed to recognize evil and intervene with force. 25 Could German and Austrian policy be based on traditional hostility to the Serbs and a desire to renew their earlier sphere-of-influence role in that area now that the Soviet Union was gone and any reason to support an independent Yugoslavia had ended? 26 Could the Clinton administration be intervening at the behest of powerful lobbies, 27 or to strengthen relationships with Muslim allies like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, 28 or to distract attention from political problems at home? These questions never arose once in the 95 article set, nor did they ever arise in Marlise Simons’ numerous articles in the New York Times on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslav. 29 ✱ In none of the articles was it ever suggested that the Bosnian Muslims needed a “Srebrenica massacre” to achieve their political aims, and that they played an important role in facilitating the Srebrenica takeover, in assuring some killings, and in helping produce an adequate number massacred. None of the articles mention the credible report that Clinton told Izetbegovic that he needed 5,000 bodies at Srebrenica to obtain NATO military support. 30 None of them mention the fact that the Bosnian Muslims refused to provide the Red Cross with the names of people who fled Srebrenica and made it to Bosnian Muslim lines, which would have reduced the initially established “missing” total. None of them mention the claims and evidence that Izetbegovic and associates were willing to kill or see killed their own civilians and personnel to make political capital. 31 None of them mention the ease with which a small number of Bosnian Serbs were able to capture Srebrenica in July 1995 and none speculate on the politics of the Bosnian Muslim withdrawal. 32 ✱ Although the articles regularly mention that Srebrenica was declared a “safe area,” and stress both the Bosnian Serb violation of their safety and the UN failure to protect it, they give little or no attention to the fact that the Bosnian Muslims were supposed to have been disarmed in those areas, but were not and in fact carried out regular forays against the nearby Serb towns from those safe retreats. Ignoring this 254
U.S. Media Coverage of Srebrenica other side of the “safe area” failure helped make the Serb attacks seem even more outrageous. ✱ A repeated theme of the supporters of the Yugoslavia Tribunal and campaigners for retribution for the Srebrenica massacre is that justice is required in order to begin a reconciliation process. 33 This of course is the alleged basis of the insistence that the Bosnian Serbs confess to their crimes at Srebrenica, as well as for the substantial investment in forensics and body counts and identification at Srebrenica. This justice-forreconciliation demand is very selective: there is no such demand for justice for the Krajina Serb victims or literally thousands of Serb victims in Western Bosnia, only for the Bosnian Muslims. There is also no reason to believe that a one-sided call for justice, with the other side feeling strongly the discrimination, will help reconciliation in any way. Nor is there any reason to believe that reconciliation is the aim of those pushing for Serb confessions and other acts of penance. But the articles examined here repeat this theme without qualification. In sum, the U.S. media treatment of Srebrenica in our sizable sample lacks minimal journalistic integrity. It follows a de facto party line, taps sources that take that line as a given and excludes all others, fails to provide adequate context and is simply unable and unwilling to ask obvious questions and investigate issues that cry out for investigation (like the alleged satellite evidence of killings). Like the U.S. media’s news coverage of the May 1981 papal assassination attempt, or the Soviet shooting down of Korean Airliner 007 in 1983, 34 this is propaganda under the guise of news. Notes 1 The estimate of deaths attributable to the 9/11 hijackings fell from upwards of 7,000 to well below 3,000 (see above, Edward S. Herman, Preface, n. 6; also Jonathan Rooper, Ch. 4, “The Numbers Game”); similarly, the estimate of Serbs killed in the Croatian ethnic cleansing of the Krajina in August 1995 fell from 14,000 to 2,500 (on this, see Gregory Elich, “The Invasion of Serbian Krajina,” CirqueMinime/Paris, April 3, 2005, < http://cirqueminime.blogspot.com/ 2005/04/invasion-of-serbian-krajina-by-greg.html >). 2 On the single mass grave, Ryan McKinnick, “‘Requiem’ Shines Light on Atrocities in Bosnia,” Boston Globe, Nov. 1, 2000; reporter John Pomfret uses six different forms of speculative reporting in a single article: “After ‘Ethnic Cleansing,’ 255
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CONTENTS Maps 4-6 Foreword 7 Philli
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Summer 1995
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FOREWORD Phillip Corwin On July 11,
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PREFACE Edward S. Herman Srebrenica
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction Edward S. He
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