The Romanian media about the Romanian media

Romanian newspapers report quite a lot on themselves and other types of media, reveals a study by The Center of Independent Journalism (CJI - RO) and Media Monitoring Agency (AMP - RO). One of the explanations resides in the various connections between the mass media domain and some other wide-interest topics:

• the former secret police: some journalists were revealed as ex-delators for the Securitate
• the Romanian oligarchs taking over or launching various titles/televisions, supposedly to protect themselves from the anti-corruption campaign of the Justice and Truth government alliance; media property transfer in general
• secret services agents infiltrated among journalists, possibly with unethical/non-democratic goals
• political biasing of the media
• assaulted journalists.

The study doesn’t include a comparison with an earlier stage of the Romanian society, such as the former social-democrat (PSD) mandate. However, most of the topics above appeared massively in the Romanian newspapers after the change of political power, when the political pressure decreased significantly.

Top of the national newspapers, according to the number of stories published on mass media topics, September, 2006:

• Evenimentul zilei: 155
• Cotidianul : 80
• Jurnalul naţional: 58
• Gândul: 56
• România liberă: 45
• Ziua: 31
• Adevărul: 26
• Total: 451

Topics covered in September 2006, by the titles above:

• Media stars 110
• Tv content: 64
• Tv productions: 64
• Programming schedule: 48
• Media property: 23
• Journalistic practice: 18
• Events organisation: 18
• Property transfer: 16
• Media investment: 13
• Media consume: 12
• The “Great Romanian” (BBC model) public television campaign: 11
• Deceased: 11
• Former secret police delators among journalists revealed: 11
• Secret services agents infiltrated into the editorial teams: 10
• Radio production: 10
• Assaulted journalsits: 7
• New media: 7
• Broadcast regulation authority (CNA) fines: 6
• Other: 107
• Total: 566

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