Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Cali Ruchala (not verified) on Wed, 07/27/2005 - 20:13.
I didn't think this worthy of mention as it's really irrelevant to Srebrenica, but as the ship seems to be running aground anyway...
To qualify your statement, Bill, you've jumped the gun a bit based on your earlier Google search. IWPR was the only English-language publication that covered it. Both Politika and Danas did as well.
Why didn't other English-language media cover it? Relatively speaking, this is a rather minor trial, and I would be willing to guess that Stephen was one of the only journalists for an English-speaking publication on the spot. The major media really only cover the Milosevic trial (and, possibly in the future, the Seselj trial) - and that mostly consists of an overview in the NYTimes every other month or so. The rest are wire reports when a verdict is announced. We can speculate on dark motives as to why, but in reality, these "little" trials aren't very sexy stories. IWPR is subsidized, so they don't have to worry about advertisers or subscribers in their coverage.
Politika was a ghastly rag under the Milosevic regime, but has been more or less centrist (in the Serbian context) since October 2000, when the Ribnikar family took it over again (though I believe it's changed hands a couple of times since then). Danas for its part has received money from many of the sources as IWPR. I mention this because Stephen's original article was printed there - this is mentioned in the follow-up article I did.
Chris Stephen can speak for himself (and very well, might I add), but I gathered that his basic interest in the Nikolic perjury was the effect it had on plea bargaining for things as serious as war crimes and crimes against humanity. Not that it called the whole Tribunal into question, or any of the other murky conspiracy theories people have attached to articles on this subject. Chris is a competant reporter and still follows the ICTY; in fact, based on his printed work, I'd say he's a supporter of it. So following the thread that this particular incident is going to cast light on anything but IWPR and their handling of this issue is a dead-end.
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I didn't think this worthy of mention as it's really irrelevant to Srebrenica, but as the ship seems to be running aground anyway...
To qualify your statement, Bill, you've jumped the gun a bit based on your earlier Google search. IWPR was the only English-language publication that covered it. Both Politika and Danas did as well.
Why didn't other English-language media cover it? Relatively speaking, this is a rather minor trial, and I would be willing to guess that Stephen was one of the only journalists for an English-speaking publication on the spot. The major media really only cover the Milosevic trial (and, possibly in the future, the Seselj trial) - and that mostly consists of an overview in the NYTimes every other month or so. The rest are wire reports when a verdict is announced. We can speculate on dark motives as to why, but in reality, these "little" trials aren't very sexy stories. IWPR is subsidized, so they don't have to worry about advertisers or subscribers in their coverage.
Politika was a ghastly rag under the Milosevic regime, but has been more or less centrist (in the Serbian context) since October 2000, when the Ribnikar family took it over again (though I believe it's changed hands a couple of times since then). Danas for its part has received money from many of the sources as IWPR. I mention this because Stephen's original article was printed there - this is mentioned in the follow-up article I did.
Chris Stephen can speak for himself (and very well, might I add), but I gathered that his basic interest in the Nikolic perjury was the effect it had on plea bargaining for things as serious as war crimes and crimes against humanity. Not that it called the whole Tribunal into question, or any of the other murky conspiracy theories people have attached to articles on this subject. Chris is a competant reporter and still follows the ICTY; in fact, based on his printed work, I'd say he's a supporter of it. So following the thread that this particular incident is going to cast light on anything but IWPR and their handling of this issue is a dead-end.