According to the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), these are among the top twenty-five "under-reported" (censored) news stories of 1998. You can add to these various other stories that CERJ has reported, including the massive US-funded military escalation of repressive activities in Colombia, and the narrow defeat in the US Congress of legislation that would have had the effect of forcing all of the US States to try children accused of crimes as adults in criminal courts. -- John Wilmerding, CERJ

ACCORDING TO IGC, THE TOP 10 CENSORED OR UNDER-REPORTED JUSTICE-RELATED STORIES OF 1998 ARE:

>7. U. S. MEDIA PROMOTES BIASED COVERAGE ON BOSNIA -- Sources: CAQ "Misinformation: TV Coverage of a Bosnian Camp", Fall 1998, No. 65 by Thomas Deichmann, and CAQ "Seeing Yugoslavia Through A Dark Glass", Fall 1998, No. 65 by Diana Johnstone. A visit to the camps of Omarska and Trnopolje by a British team from Independent Television (ITN) on August 5, 1992 gave rise to the image of the Serbs as the new Nazis of the Balkans. A widely published photo taken by ITN pictured an emaciated Muslin behind barbed wire with comrades imprisoned behind him. ITN's photo was not, however, as accurate as it seemed. The men in the photo were not standing behind barbed wire. In fact the Hague Tribunal confirmed that there was no barbed wire surrounding the Belesn 92 at Trnopolje. The emaciated Muslim shown with his shirt off was in fact a very ill man selected to be featured in the photo. Trnopolje was not a concentration camp, it was a refugee and transit center. Many Muslims traveled there for protection and could leave whenever they wished.