The NGO Infocentre, in cooperation with the Media Development Centre and the New Media Centre, financialy supported by Foundation Open Soceity Macedonia (FOSM), prepared a report on several important events that attracted major interest by the media in 2011: The situation in the media and media freedoms in Macedonia; the death of Martin Neškovski, the incident that took place at the debate on the freedom of media in Macedonia, organized by the European Parliament in Brussels; and the process of lustration, i.e. the lustration of Vladimir Milčin, influential civic activist, as the lustration case that received the greatest attention by the public.
In addition to the media coverage of those events, this report provides a general overview of the most commonly used methods of manipulation and propaganda techniques by the journalists and the media in Macedonia in the cases subject to this analysis.
This report is divided in four parts: the first part – the Context – presents the overview of the situation in media and the freedom of speech in Macedonia; the second part presents, in detail, the cases of Martin Neškovski, the incident in Brussels and the lustration of Vladimir Milčin; the third part offers an overview of most commonly used manipulation techniques; and the last, the fourth part contains the conclusions.
It should be noted that this analysis took into account the journalistic reports and media articles dedicated to the said cases, published and aired in the first seven days since the start of each of the cases, respectively.
Media Mirror 2011: MEDIA MANIPULATION AND PROPAGANDA (299KB)
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