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Newspaper, Culture and War

Political changes in the nineties of the 20th century had an impact on all segments of life in the Republic of Croatia. In particular, the changes were felt in the field of mass media. Newspapers found themselves in a demanding test in the process of creating a new democratic, pluralistic information system, which was considerably more difficult because of the Homeland War. Cultural life in war raises the morale of the people and it had great importance for spiritual life, and therefore the promotion of cultural life had particular importance during the war and post-war period, especially through the media because of their influence. The aim of the paper is to explore the relation of the local newspapers toward culture during the worst days of the Homeland war in Zadar. The paper is based on articles about culture published in the Zadar newspapers in the period from 1991 to 1993 collected with reference to the programme of the Cultural Policy of the Republic of Croatia which, after adaptation to the newspaper corpus, includes: Literature and Publishing, Visual Art, Music, Performing Arts, Film, Media, Cultural Heritage. The results of the research were obtained by the analysis of 128 issues of newspapers and 330 articles. The research consisted of qualitative and quantitative text analysis. The obtained data were processed in the author's application of ZD-newspaper explorer, developed by using the database management program Microsoft Access.

Newspaper; Culture; War; Editorial policy; Democracy

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