The migrant crisis was intensified by wars and upheavals in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean, but also by the vague interventions of the Western allies in breaking the dictatorial regimes there during the Arab Spring. In the fall of 2015, just before the parliamentary elections, a wave of migrants from the Balkan route came across Croatia's borders, in which hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed into Western Europe via Croatia over a period of several months. The arrival of a large number of refugees and migrants in Europe from 2015 onward prompted European and Croatian media to report on the "migrant crisis" on a daily basis. Migrants were mostly reported neutrally and that they were mostly not subject to stereotyping. Nevertheless, the dominant reporting framework of all portals during the entire analyzed period was security, not humanitarian. This does not apply to the Red Cross, which cites its influence on ensuring the quality of life of migrants in Croatia. There is no doubt that the phenomenon of migration is an important topic on the media agenda in Croatia, and thus it is also an important social issue, because the media are key actors in the field of constructing, perpetuating and transmitting meaning, and in this sense they have an indispensable role in setting and directing public debates. , as well as in informing the general population. The analysis of media representations shed light on media-production practices that are problematic for the public and the public interest, which, unfortunately, are nothing new: the subject is reported sensationally, which includes dramatization, pathos and manipulation of the audience's emotions, with the intention of arousing strong positive or negative sentiments, while the central characteristic of reporting on the topic of conflict, which is represented as a fundamental social relationship between different actors, opening space for controversial actors to attract the attention of the audience (regardless of the potentially harmful consequences for society as a whole).