One of the best tool for monitoring media skidding in Romania is the “FreeEx Report”, an ActiveWatch project which has been in place since 1999 to deal with both the monitoring of Romanian media and the alarming signals within the institutions and the organizations that should be able to intervene on media system. According to 2017 report, in the last year freedom of expression has been severely affected by radical discourses: there have been numerous intimidation attempts both within the guild and in the political environment.
The deputy from the ruling party GERB Anton Todorov and the deputy Prime Minister and United Patriots party co-leader Valeri Simeonov threatened a journalist from the national Nova TV. They warned him that if he kept asking awkward questions he would be fired.
An indictment has been issued for academics from İstanbul, Galatasaray, Boğaziçi, Mimar Sinan, Nişantaşı and Yeni Yüzyıl Universities who have signed the peace declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”. The academics are being charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” and are facing 7,5 years in prison.
Today’s information is largely focused on news that has no impact on the quality of people lives: advertising combined with black story are spreading a mix of distrust and fear. The problem of the intent of the information is arising in Croatia.
The court upheld the custodial sentence for teacher Ayşe Çelik, sentenced to 15 months in jail for having said “do not let the children die” live on “Kanal D” television channel. Her participation in the television program "Beyaz Şov" was by phone, and she was referring to civil clashes in southeastern Turkey, occurred in the summer of 2016.
Even 25 years after the war, the German war correspondent Erich Rathfelder is still in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Why? Because there are a lot of topics he needs to report on. For Mediacentar he writes about his experience as a war correspondent, but he also tries to explain how today's ideologies are being confronted through politics, media and schools.
Media outlets that are not under the direct influence of the government and numerous portals and websites of non-governmental organizations have blackened their websites for an hour to draw the public’s attention to the fact that media freedom in Serbia is in its death throes.
Media outlets constantly focus their attention on those states that are considered to be élite, on the individuals who are accepted as the most important individuals in our society and on events concerning these people and nations. On the other side, a large number of those who are not big, rich and “important” are left behind closed doors that lead to media space.
Ivana Perić gives a look to the right side: the lectures, the books, the woman's vision, the rhetoric about immigration. Which country emerges from the right-wing media?
