It is also very interesting to note that when the Communists ran Yugoslavia, the NYT coverage of Kosovo was very pro-Serbian, publishing a series of articles about Albanian depredations in Kosovo. The Albanians were branded as criminals, fundamentalist terrorists, and the NYT outlined their links to others such as HAMAS, The Libyans, etc. When the Communists were overthrown, the Serbs soon became the devils, and the Albanians "Freedom Fighters." Odd, ain't it?
Of course the Albanian slaughter and oppression of the Rom has been covered. Unfortunately, I think any rational person would have to conclude that in most cases, where Muslims attain, or see the possibility of attaining a majority, intolerance becomes the norm.
I hope Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are called for cross-examination by Milosevic. We are a long way from the truth.
I don’t consider reporting pro-anyone if they are reporting the truth, and if they aren’t neglecting to report on a particular group's misdeeds that are newsworthy. So, I don’t consider the NYT '80's coverage on Kosovo or the Albanian Mafia pro-Serbian because none of it has been shown to be lies.
I do consider the coverage of the last dozen years anti-Serbian because the media has been caught in lies and blaming the Serbs for things they did not do. They also have presented funerals for Orthodox children as being those for Muslim children. They have shown Serb victims as Muslim. They have also pulled stunts, for example, as when a film crew put themselves behind a compound surrounded by a barbedwire fence (aimed to keep out looters), and filmed men who gathered to answer their questions. The footage was then presented to make it look like the men were imprisoned by the fence – which was untrue.
They have done things like the following to demonize the Serbs:
Time magazine provided similar coverage. The firing soldier in its cover photo of 'Serb murders wounded man' in Brcko wears a uniform unlike any worn by Bosnian or Serb forces; the architecture is foreign to Brcko; and a sign (Donn Zela) identifies the location as Slovenian. In fact, the picture was taken by a Reuters photographer in early May 1992! (Time, 17 May 1993)See, they can falsify the people (Slovene presented as evil Serb), the place (Slovenia town as Brcko, Bosnia), and the time (1992 as 1993) all at once, and all done for their demonize-the-Serbs campaign.
Never has it gone the other way in the last decade - that victims shown to be Serbs were actually non-Serbs. Never have they implicated a Muslim, Croat, or Albanian for crimes that were later shown to be done by Serbs. It is obviously anti-Serb, but none of the NYT coverage from the ‘80s which showed the Serbs as victims of Albanian violence has been shown to be false.