Croatian Print Media

Croatian print media of the 1960s can tell us much about the period itself. They reveal to us that it was a time that witnessed the development of trends that would last for the next several decades at least, a period that saw the beginnings of a postmodern, consumer, and liquid society develop. The sixties also saw slow but persistent spikes in pluralism, which were not only discursive: political publications were given new columns that we can consider to be for the citizens rather than the state, although these columns were closely monitored. The Catholic Church began publishing the fortnightly Glas Koncila in 1963. In 1967 youth publications began spreading, dominated by university students. Those were the years when ideas spread widely in Europe and in Croatia. They found themselves a space, and encouraged responses from readers primarily through print media. However, not all of their ideas came to be, and among those that were realized later on not all were as positive as they seemed half a century ago.