ABSTRACT
One of the final major news events of the twentieth century was the Kosovo bombardment, a further twist of the 1990s tragedy of former Yugoslavia which provided a gruesome symmetry to the century whose early years had been so traumatically overshadowed by crisis in the Balkans. For this narrative, renewed concentration on this area provides an opportunity to compare the modes of public deception then (see Chapter 3), with the end of the century, following the exponential development of the mass media, the media industries and media technology, and equally decades of opportunity for mass media practice, analysis, criticism and regulation, and generations of opportunity for the development of a critically and ethically conscious public sphere in the media age.
