Rehabilitating Miloevi: posthumous coverage of the Miloevi regime in Serbian newspapers

摘要

This article analyses the media's coverage of Slobodan Miloevi's death with an aim to uncover how media further use and incorporate social events into nationalistic discourses and, in that, reconstruct the myth of a legendary leader. The critical discoursive analysis shows that one of the most popular Serbian newspapers Veernje novosti recontextualized Miloevi's death in accordance with the nationalistic media discourse that dominated his regime (1987-2000) and in that further reproduced the Serbian myth of Miloevi as a legendary leader.