RES: RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian)

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Mon Oct 9 08:26:24 PDT 2000


At 09:12 AM 10/9/00 -0400, jks wrote:
> -It seems Milosevic´s Serbia is a bit more democratic than former USSR. I
> would
> -consider it not a dictatorship, but a "half democracy" like Turkey,
> Malaysia
> -Peru, or Russia. Opposition is tolerated, but elections were always unfair
> due
> -to fraud and unequal access to media, not to mention some degree of
> repression. >>

As opposed to the United States, where opposition (e.g. Ralph Nader) gets the full access to the media, presidential debates, and assorted public resources.

wojtek



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