This article discusses the Yugoslav/Serbian newsweekly Vreme’s reporting under Slobodan Milošević’s regime, more precisely its coverage of the Kosovo crisis and its aftermath in the late 1990s. Founded just before the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as one of the first private media outlets, Vreme set the standards of responsible and critical journalism about wars and politics during Milošević’s rule, but it is debatable if and to what extent it was capable of escaping and transgressing the limitations it imposed on the Serbian media. This question of media reporting during Milošević’s rule is thus examined in a broader context of the conflicts and political constellation in Serbia in the 1990s. In addition, the article also examines the debates over the legacy of the 1990s wars and crimes that appeared in Vreme in 2002, thereby providing an inside into the post-conflict dilemmas, challenges and ideological divisions in the Serbian society in general.
Pavlović et al. (Mon,) studied this question.