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Although many authors define the media as a means of information, they have long since become a means of influencing and manipulating public opinion. Although they contain many positive elements, technological progress and the convergence of media have brought the possibility of fast and efficient spread of fake news and propaganda. Such influence of the media, unfortunately, is most often visible when reporting on crisis situations, wars, "reality" programs, black chronicles, or when reporting on negative social phenomena. Through manipulative, unverified, inaccurate reporting, except for the fact that they try to achieve greater viewership or readership, they create a negative impression of many events, which affects the behavior and awareness of the public. Wars are crisis situations and phenomena that leave negative effects on the population. This is also the case with the current war taking place on the territory of Ukraine. This paper will present the way of reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the examples of the Bosnian portals, as well as the research of international organizations on this topic. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of objective and accurate information to the public in crisis situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze attitudes of members of the legal professions in Croatia and Serbia with regards to the judicial systems - the trust in judicial institutions and satisfaction with their performance. In the first part of the paper we present arguments of the cultural and institutional approach to explaining the foundations of trust in institutions, then define the characteristics of a "good" judiciary in the context of the democratic rule of law, and present the socio-political context of judicial reform in both countries over the last twenty years. In the second, empirical part of the paper we analyze the data collected through the online survey conducted among members of the legal professions in 2018 in Croatia and Serbia. The results from both countries show a low level of trust in judiciary and deep dissatisfaction with the functioning of judiciary on a list of dimensions. Our analysis confirms the link between (dis)trust in institutions and (dis)satisfaction with their work and thus also the assumptions of the institutional perspective on trust. We conclude that the obtained results point to an "internal" crisis of trust in judiciary in both countries, which accompanies the evident "external" crisis of the Serbian judiciary and the latent tensions in and around the Croatian judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]