Api manipulation article

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Manipulation of Manipulation // Vasile Năstase In the period of February-April, the Association of Independent Press monitored the media under the aspect of presentation of the topics of major public interest "as to determine possible trends of information manipulation”. Good thing, but when you read the content in the quotes above, makes you to yell in the wilderness. What kind of "determination of possible trends of information manipulation" it could be when the Moldovan press is in the ratio of 95 percent controlled politically? If it's to be fair, the media we have, “perfectly” integrated in the propaganda system of the Party, it’s traditional, deontological, professional functions reducing to polishing the image of heads of parties, to circumvent issues of corruption at high levels even if the free press put them out in abundance! From the very beginning we find that: ” Manipulation has occurred mainly through: Selection/filtration of information-during the reference period there were several cases in which the media have selected topics not according to their importance and the degree of public concern, but the masters’ preferences and agenda.” Stop! Which masters? Does API know the name of real masters, de jure, of Moldovan media? Especially in Broadcasting? If only the informal mode, why do the authors set up themselves in knower of agendas of these masters? And then how different are these founders! SomePlahotniuc, Lucinschi are politicians, others are just business men, and third journalists, etc., etc. Then, one is the interest of the shareholding of Jurnal TV, which, on own account, from German income taxed, respecting the laws in force, promotes Western values, organizes charity and social actions, fights against corruption, defends the state of officials and accomplices who give guns over guns despoiling on command the domestic and foreign particulars, the State and even European funds (examples would take too much space!) and other is the interest of Moguls, which being in conflict of interest due to public functions, taking advantage of business with the State and against its assets, taking advantage of captive institution services and the corrupt judiciary, hold a monopoly on advertising market, counterfeited audiences, frequencies with national coverage, practice piracy, poisoning the public opinion with ideological terrorism mark Kremlin and hide from the eyes of the world their fraud of the masters and officials, prosecutors and judges their slaves! (And there are plenty of examples; it’s not the case to agglomerate the space). If the experts concerned present a report-financial supported by the institutions of Netherlands and the USA-guessing, then perhaps neither would be the case to wear away the time to pass the entire contents full of the "variants" and assumptions. Once we got started, however, let’s go further (even more so the Association that I represent, Apollo, continuously monitors the audiovisual institutions!) and to find out that: ”Some (sic!) media either have avoided to reflect specific (sic!) topics of public interest, or they presented background information, summaries, without presenting a comprehensive picture of 1


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