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EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS 2015: PRESS COVERAGE ON WEBSITE DNEVNO.HR

The Croatian Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, but hate speech or discrimination based on race, religion, nation and ethnics is forbidden. During and after the European refugee crisis in 2015, series of articles which contain stereotypes, religious and racial discrimination were published in Croatia and presented to a large group of public. We selected dnevno.hr for our case study because the prior researches suggested that their articles contain discriminatory and hate speech (Hoffman, 2015 ; Biželj, 2017). Our research question was: Are articles written on the website dnevno.hr obeying the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and professional standards when they write about the refugee crisis? Words used in 453 articles were analyzed through categories which were derived from the legal norms of human rights in Croatia and five such articles were found. The results showed that in Croatian public space articles that discriminate can be published and that journalists can write about most vulnerable social group contrary to the national laws.

European refugee crisis, European migrant crisis, hate speech, hate media, press coverage, website dnevno.hr

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