Cosamin Prelipceanu and Ilie Bolojan / Source: Capture Digi24
Face to face with Ilie Bolojan, Cosmin Prelipceanu opened the case to the Minister of Defense without telling people how it appeared.
If you removed the news produced by the rest of the media from the Romanian television shows, there would be almost as much information as in the morning radio shows. But not alert-laughter, as is practiced on the radio, but alert-gloomy, as the TV channels present them.
The audio-visual giants live on the backs of the sherpas in the print media. The metaphor is an exaggeration, but something of the idea remains. In the news bulletins, televisions and radios are trying, for better or for worse, to quote more. To assign the information. There are also those like Mircea Badea, who quote and when criticizing, correctly.
But when the stars of the “author” shows appear, then any citation is closed. They don't have time, they don't care, they take with both hands and from all pockets. On Thursday evening, Cosmin Prelipceanu asked Ilie Bolojan on Digi 24 what the head of the Government says after information “appeared” about the contradictory CV of Defense Minister Ionuț Moșteanu. You say that Prelipceanu was referring to information that fell from the sky, like the rain that covered Romania.
You read not for the people in the guild, but for the public
In all the civilized world, you tell the public where you get your information and let people make up their own minds. They decide whether to credit them or not depending on the source. Here, TV or radio stars make statements as if they were born with the facts in their arms. He cites studies, data, statements from interviews, as if they had gathered all the world's media overnight.
The information about Minister Ionuț Moșteanu did not “appear” anonymously and impersonally. The inadvertences did not “come”, as Prelipceanu expressed. They were discovered by Libertatea. Specifically by journalists Maria Andries and Daniel Dancea.
Empowerment phase and reiki at Victoria Palace
The publication rummaged through the USR politician's older CVs. Journalists learned that the Minister of Defense included in his CV with which he was in the CA at Tarom the graduation of a faculty that denies that Moșteanu was ever his student. In the old CV, the Atheneum faculty appears, in the new one, Bioterra appears. The minister said: it's Bioterra, I was wrong, I apologize!
But the newspaper had previously requested Moșteanu's diploma. The official just now gave it, directly on Facebook and not to those who asked for it. It is the well-known arrogance of politicians.
The Moșteanu case has its own evolution. We understand from Ilie Bolojan's statement that it has reached the “strengthening” stage and, perhaps, the reiki stage, so as not to stress the minister too much and destabilize NATO's eastern flank.
But beyond the actual case, maybe now, when it is clear who discovered the facts, the televisions and radios will make the effort to put the correct name in the CV they announce to the public.
