Medijska slika o Petom oktobru: između osporavanja i zaborava

Abstract

Poglavlje analizira medijske diskurse o Petom oktobru u poslednjih dvadeset godina. U radu se fokusiramo na tekstove objavljene povodom godišnjica Petog oktobra u dva dnevna lista, Blicu i Večernjim novostima. U analizi uočavamo tri osnovna diskursa: 1) diskurs o propuštenim šansama i izneverenim očekivanjima; 2) diskurs o (revolucionarnom?) karakteru promena, i 3) diskurs zaborava i povratka devedesetih. Nalazi takođe ukazuju na dinamiku u odnosima između stranaka starog režima i stranaka pobedničke koalicije DOS, kao i na promenu odnosa stranaka i aktera civilnog društva bez kojih Peti oktobar nije bio moguć. Poglavlje pokazuje kako jedan snažan simbol relativno brzo prelazi put od „zvezde vodilje” do simbola izneverenih očekivanja i davnoprošlog vremena, ali i postaje „prazni označitelj”.

This chapter explores the media discourses about the 5 October Over- throw in Serbia in the last twenty years. We focus on the articles published in relation to the 5 October commemoration dates in two daily newspapers Blic and Večernje novosti. in the analysis, we observe three main discourses: 1) a discourse on missed opportunities and betrayed expectations; 2) discourse on the (revolutionary?) character of the changes; and 3) the discourse of indifference and the return of the 1990s. The findings also point to the dynamics in the relations between the parties of the old regime and the parties of the winning DOS coalition, as well as the change in relations between parties and civil society actors without which the 5 October would not have been possible. The chapter demonstrates how a strong symbol may easily shift from the “leading star” to the symbol of betrayed expectations and the past, but also become an “empty signifier”.