All Serbian television networks downplay the issue of Albanian refugees. There have been no pictures of the thousands of Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo. Any coverage of the Kosovo refugee situation shows both Serbs and Albanians fleeing to Belgrade and being helped by the authorities here. Reports from Kosovo are designed to directly refute the Western claims about the Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing. According to television here, the Serbs remain united in their patriotic resistance to NATO attacks, within one state and under one flag.
Serbian television promotes patriotism as the supreme social value.
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