In The National Interest, Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, blasts former U.S. UN Ambassador Samantha Power’s “toxic advocacy journalism” about BiH’s civil war in the 1990s. Carpenter writes:
Like other practitioners of advocacy journalism in Bosnia, Power seemed blissfully unaware of (or indifferent to) the danger that she was presenting oversimplified and brazenly unfair, one-sided accounts. One subtle but important indicator of her bias, even in her memoir a quarter century later, was that she typically uses “Bosnians” as a synonym for the country’s Muslim population. Power implicitly treated Serbs and Croats as foreign interlopers, even though they lived in Bosnia and in most instances their families had done so for generations.
Carpenter argues that Power’s journalism “helped foment disastrous, destabilizing Western military interventions in multiple countries.”
