The tabloids war: We’re not Europe’s tuberculars, says Libertatea

Libertatea’s ‘Look who’s talking’ campaign, aiming the negative reports about Romanian migrants in The Sun, continues today with a story called ‘We’re not Europe’s tuberculars [RO]‘. Libertatea promises it will answer all the allegations previously published in The Sun and addresses an piece printed on November 3 by the British tabloid, expressing some concerns that TB could be brought in UK by Romanian immigrants.

After observing that The Sun has blasted a ‘media bomb’ that ‘hurt the pride of every Romanian’, Libertatea says Romania is provided with ‘the most efficient and well functioning TB control system in Europe’. A medical doctor says Romanian TB patients are not likely to leave the care they take in Romania to go to the UK.

Libertatea also reports the intention of the PSD (social democratic party) to sue The Sun for the negative stories published about Romania.

The ‘media bomb’ ‘blasted’ by The Sun might be of less importance than Libertatea says. Searches with ‘Romania’, ‘Romanian’ and ‘tuberculosis’ on the newspaper’s site [EN] only produce a piece titled ‘1,500 migrants a day come in [EN]‘ dated November 3, where the issue of TB coming from Romania is reserved a single sentence, in a sloppy paragraph, towards the end.

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