Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995
The Captive Mind
By Warren Zimmermann
Forging War: The Media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
by Mark Thompson
Article 19, International Centre Against Censorship, (In the US it can be obtained by writing to Article 19, Suite 700, 1601 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009. Please add $2 for postage.), 272 pp., $15.00 (paper)
In the old days of the Soviet Union, a huge neon sign was clearly visible from Gorky Street in Moscow. It read, as I remember, 'The Soviet Press—Strongest Weapon of Leninist Power.' Ever since Lenin, Communists have understood the importance of the press as a vital instrument of control. In Tito's Yugoslavia, journalists strayed from the Party line at their peril. It was as a journalist, not as a Party official, that Milovan Djilas got in trouble. He was not condemned for discussing his radical ideas in private; in fact, several of his high-ranking comrades agreed with him. His sin was in publishing them.
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