SERBIA MAKES TV A WEAPON.(MAIN)

Byline: TOM TEEPEN

If real people weren't really being killed, the eruption of Serb outrage at NATO's mistaken bombing of a caravan of fleeing Kosovars could be amusing.

Here is a government pretending for world consumption to be distressed at NATO's accidental killing of the very people Serbia itself is energetically and very, very purposely brutalizing.

Even the fatalism embedded in the old saw that the first victim of war is truth is strained by a whopper like that one. Yet make no mistake: Serbia is scoring PR points with its phony indignation, not least by its manipulation of the images -- and by the confidence it can have that most TV …