In 2005, Peter Brock, Foreign Editor of the El Paso Herald wrote his first book entitled, Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting... Journalism & Tragedy in Yugoslavia after he spent a year in the Balkans covering the Bosnian Civil War. Brock has widely traveled the Balkans, Western and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and other regions since 1976.

Brock is the recipient of 17 major journalism awards, including runner-up to the Pulitzer in 1989. He holds the Southern Journalism Award for investigative Reporting at Duke University. After publishing Media Cleansing he was unceremoniously blacklisted by the media for daring to expose the manipulation, lies, and omissions utilized in covering the war in the Balkans by most foreign correspondents. The result... Brock has been muzzled into silence and unable to find employment in a field in which he excelled for 30 years. Does the biased media have a hidden agenda?

As early as 1993 Brock’s article, Dateline Yugoslavia: The Partisan Press was published in Foreign Affairs Magazine. The article shocked and rattled mainstream media and a full court assault was launched against Brock including an attempt to strip him of his media credentials.

Newsday’s Roy Gutman, New Republic’s Charles Lane, NPR’s Tom Gjelten, MacNeil-Lehrer’s Charlene Hunter Galt, John Burns, and Anthony Lewis of the New York Times, and other attempted, individually and together, publicly and behind the scenes to intimidate, ridicule, harass, denounce and discredit any journalists who raised the issue of unfair and biased reporting in Former Yugoslavia. This group even suggested that Brock’s wife was a Serb. She was not. Some of these journalists threatened Brock with lawsuits if he published his book... they have not!

Gutman, a Pulitzer winner for a Bosnian story that turned out to be fabricated wrote in the introduction to his book, A Witness to Genocide: "Having set such lofty standards, I immediately made an exception and reported about the Omarska camp which I had not visited, based on the second-hand witness account." In other words, Gutman fabricated the story without any corroborating evidence. He relied on hearsay and double hearsay then proceeded to demonize the Serbs with collective guilt.

Gutman openly supported Ms. Jadranka Cigelj who was brought to the U.S. to testify before the Foreign Relations Committee and appeared on numerous national television programs as a "Serbian rape victim." Gutman never disclosed that Ms. Cigelj filed rape charges under five different aliases, or that she was a member of the CIC (Croatian Information Centre), widely known by the press as the propaganda mouthpiece for the Croatian government. The CIC was also the sponsor of the Croatian language version of Gutman’s book. This was highly inappropriate and a clear violation of journalistic ethics. But that didn’t stop the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Three weeks before the Newsweek Rape story, document #S24491 was presented to the United Nations. It is the legal, video taped depositions of 800 Serbian rape victims presented at a time when foreign correspondents were telling the world that "women in this culture will not come forward when rape is the issue as it prevents a future marriage and their entire family is demeaned as a result of the rape." The media insisted that the "Serbs raped these Muslim women numerous times each day until they became pregnant, then held these victims in captivity until they were forced to gave birth to Serbian babies." Where are the 60,000 babies? We now know ten years later that the real number of rape victims in Bosnia was about 1,600 of which 880 were Serbian women and we also now know that less than 700 babies were born of these crimes, one third to Serbs.

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