ZAGREB ZAGREB, June 7 (Hina) - The book "Zlocin u 19.30" by a former editor--in-chief of Sarajevo's "Oslobodjenje" daily, Kemal Kurspahic, was presented at Zagreb's Journalists' House on Saturday.
ZAGREB, June 7 (Hina) - The book "Zlocin u 19.30" by a former editor-
-in-chief of Sarajevo's "Oslobodjenje" daily, Kemal Kurspahic, was
presented at Zagreb's Journalists' House on Saturday. #L#
The book is the Bosnian edition of Kurspahic's book "Prime Time
Crime", released in the United States in March this year.
Introducing numerous facts, Kurspahic describes in the book the
media situation during the last war in the ex-Yugoslavia.
Kurspahic, today the spokesman for the U.N.'s agency for the
prevention of drug abuse and organised crime in Vienna, was
Oslobodjenje's editor-in-chief from 1988 to 1994.
Oslobodjenje was the only daily in Sarajevo which was published
even during the war, although its offices were literally on the
front line.
The book was presented by the author, journalist Bozo Novak, the
incumbent Bosnian Ambassador to Croatia and former journalist with
Oslobodjenje, Zlatko Dizdarevic, and Croatian Television editor
Goran Milic, as direct witnesses to the events described in the
book.
Robert Szucisis of the Austrian foreign ministry and Stjepan
Malovic of the International Centre for the Education of
Journalists welcomed the publishing of the Bosnian-language
edition.
Novak said the permanent value of the book was its warning that
journalism stopped being fair and free when the media became
enslaved by ruling elites and journalists turned into their
mouthpieces.
Speaking about the Croatian media which reported in a free and fair
manner during the war and in the post-war time, Kurspahic mentioned
the weekly "Feral Tribune", "Novi list" daily, and Radio 101.
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