Word: tanjug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tanjug news agency, the mouthpiece of the Serbian government, was attacking the American media for spreading what it says are fabricated stories of intimidation, mass execution and rape in the rebellious province of Kosovo. In poorly-translated English, the Serbs were trying to put their own spin on the war news, detailing the destruction caused by NATO bombing...
...bestial attack on civilian targets last night, NATO barbarians destroyed two bridges in Krusevac community," Tanjug reported May 2 after alliance bombers destroyed a bridge near Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The report goes on to describe, in bombing, which Tanjug claims killed "at least 60 people." The story was accompanied by a photo of the remains of a bus that was destroyed during the attack, over the caption "NATO genocide in Yugoslavia...
...Committee to Protect Journalists. Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, along with Fidel Castro of Cuba and Jiang Zemin of China, tops a list of enemies of the free press released by the committee Monday. Milosevic has been notoriously intolerant of independent journalists, both foreign and Yugoslavian. As for Tanjug, it operates out of something called the Ministry of Information, whose sinister, Orwellian name doesn't inspire much confidence in its objectivity...
This is hardly the only diatribe against the Western press you'll find on the Tanjug wire. A good percentage of the news agency's articles attack stories in the British and American media, particularly those on CNN, which Tanjug says is assuming "a leading role in the new propaganda undertaking...
Internet access may not be as widespread in Yugoslavia as it is here, but it is the most formidable obstacle any propagandist has ever faced. Tanjug's news stories, thinly veiled propaganda bulletins, now have to compete with the real thing from independent news sources--or at the very least with the NATO version of events...