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Cibej, Boris
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Controversial cover
The title page of the New Yorker magazine featuring a cartoon that depicts the democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim extremist has caused uproar in the US media. The scandal prompts the daily Delo to examine the role of the media today. "It is a sad fact for the moribund journalistic profession that nowadays only satire addresses the truly serious problems in society that the so-called serious media - which these days are nothing more than advertisers for the special interests of their owners - no longer report on. ... Instead of making this carefully fabricated prejudice the main theme in the media ... everyone is attacking the magazine that dared to depict this stereotype. ... But since the advisers around Obama, who is represented as the candidate for change ... condemned the New Yorker's title page, the neutral observers of America's election campaign fever are asking: where are all these [purported] changes?"
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Slovenia's good relations with Russia
Journalist Boris Cibej takes the consecration of a small Russian chapel in Slovenia as an opportunity to reflect on the country's relations with Russia. "Since the break-up of Yugoslavia, Slovenia has proven that it's possible to do successful business in Russia without excessive political manoeuvring. In this respect, the country has never encountered the obstacles faced by other small European states whose positions on Chechnya draw Russian hostility. Perhaps Slovenia's economy is simply lucky in that its politicians haven't paid lip service to Moscow, as other heads of state of former Yugoslavian republics have done."
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