A kind of journalistic writing that could be associated with New Journalism because of its use of novelistic techniques appeared in Slovenia at approximately the same time as New Journalism appeared in the United States, and was associated predominately with the weekly magazine Tovari. Nevertheless, the new style is not related to New Journalism, although journalists defined it as “a kind of writing that was based on facts but read like literature”—a definition of New Journalism. It had not developed as an objection to factual writing, but mainly for political reasons: since journalists could not state their criticisms of the political system openly, they wrapped them in stories that used novelistic techniques typical of the short stories from the era of social realism.