Media Literacy: The Real, Interactive Way and Being Ethical Within Post Conflict Non-Catharsis Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Yıl 2020, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 2, 159 - 169, 01.10.2020

Sabahudin Hadžialić

Öz

Who is responsible for the media’s current state of affairs? Is there any
greater freedom of expression today, or is it a greater repression, or is
it two sides of the same coin? The so-called “libertarian society” has
come to the place of the desired “healthy society”, and thus we appear
to have moral anarchy. Above all, the interests of big capital and politics,
technological unpreparedness, and non-compliance with ethical and
professional standards prevail and overcome all.
There is also the problem of over-production of too many young people
in the media field who possess poor skills, the result of the lack of a
good education and monitoring of contemporary trends in journalism, as
well as too many media outlets for such a small space such as Bosnia
and Herzegovina (everything written about this country relates as well
to Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia and Kosovo*). It is not
questionable that there is freedom of speech, but its application is mostly
abusive or inadequate.
Media owners, journalists and editors are not difficult to pay for slander
punishment and similarly when they have met the goal — to smear someone,
spin real problems, etc. —BiH’s libertarian society (if we can call it that)
should be seen in the context of a non-free, captive and imprisoned society,
a society that is chained to poverty, existential fear, subject to an epidemic
of ignorance coupled with the absence of elemental courage and curiosity.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Media Literacy, Education, Journalism, Media Ethics, Media Laws, Catharsis, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kaynakça

• [1] Book “Visible Man and Spirit of Film”, 1924-1930, Publisher Berghahn, USA, in Association with Screen, September 2011 – http://www. berghahnbooks.com/title/BalazsEarly 7 Cannons of journalism: https:// macyburford.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/the-7-cannons-of-journalism/ (last approached on 20.7.2020)
• [2] Committee to Protect Journalists (2018): https://cpj.org/data/ imprisoned/2018/?status=Imprisoned&start_year=2018&end_ year=2018&group_by=location (last approached on 21.7.2019)
• [3] Declaration on Media Education (Grunwald, Federal Republic of Germany), 1977: http://www.unesco.org/education/pdf/MEDIA_E.PDF (approached on 21.07.2020)
• [4] Example of anti-journalism – Newspaper „Dnevni Avaz“, Sarajevo, BiH: http://www.media.ba/bs/mediametar/novina-protiv-novinara
• [5] European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Rome, Italy,1950): https://rm.coe.int/1680063765 (last approached on 22.7.2020)