Reactions after the sale of G4Media to Radu Budeanu. What Tudor Chirilă says: “Sad day. The man who brokered a bribe of 5 million euros received by Elena Udrea” / Who defends the transaction

Former head of the Cioloș government control body, lawyer Valentin Mircea says: “Neither At least I didn't know that G4Media is a business, it has been promoting for years and asks for money as non-profit ”.

• Dragoș Stanca: “If we do not like current investors in the press of public interest, we can invest. Individuals, companies, company”

G4Media and thought announced on Tuesday that the G4media group was purchased by Radu Budeanu's media company, sentenced to prison with a corruption in which the politician Elena Udrea and businessman Bogdan Buzăianu were involved.

DNA prosecutors, with whom the media employer Radu Budeanu made an agreement after acknowledging his facts to diminish his punishment, called the case in the indictment as “prejudice to the national energy system”.

The amount of the transaction was not communicated

On Tuesday, Radu Budeanu showed in the image that accompanied the procurement release of G4media a contract for “sales of social shares”. This means that journalists Dan Tăpăgă and Cristian Pantazi, the founders and owners of G4media, sold their social parts to him. The amount of the transaction was not publicly specified by the parties, being a commercial contract.

G4Media said that there is a formal agreement that clearly protects the editorial freedom of publications. Radu Budeanu is known to be one of the businessmen who often gave journalists.

The reactions in the public sphere were immediate.

Orlando Nicoara: “I congratulated him”

Businessman Orlando Nicoara, shareholder in News.ro and other media titles said that “unlike the vast majority of those who commented the subject, I understand Pantazi and Tapalagă. At the personal and human level. And I called Cristi to congratulate it.” Nicoara argues on his Facebook account that “they built from scratch a brand in the online media.

Diana Oncioiu: “Most of your career you have set up in the one who saves the country, justice and what to save PSD”

The journalist Diana Oncioiu has a different perspective. “Believe me, I see the shades very well. It's a professional defect. And I understand that for some the press is a business, not a good public. I understand it even if I do not agree with it. But do not tell Radu Budeanu, a close PSD, as G4Media also called it in his articles, and some other investor, Wednesday morning.

“What an irony to get in this situation when the whole career you have set up in the one who saves the country, the justice and what to be saved by the PSD.”

“But if we are still here, for me there was no need to buy Budeanu to show me how G4Media for more than half a year does journalism guided by frustrations and personal ambitions,” says Diana Oncioiu.

Valentin Mircea: “Neither At least I didn't know that G4Media is a business, it has been promoting for years and asks for money as non-profit ”

Lawyer Valentin Mircea, the former head of the Cioloș government control body believes that just placing under the same generic G4Media brand of the commercial and non -profit operation.

Valentin Mircea wrote in a Facebook comment for a post on the transaction: “Poor attempt to apologize. What we were taking! ”.

Tudor Chirilă: “Sad day”

“So he was not found to buy G4Media only Radu Budeanu, the man who intermedy a bribe of 5 million euros received by Elena Udrea and for which he was sentenced to 2 years with suspension? Sad day for the independent press and confidence,” Tudor Chirila wrote.

Horia Ghibuțiu: “In Budeanu, journalism imitation is made”

Also about the fact that the movement affects the image of the press also commented on journalist Horia Ghibuțiu.

Ghibuțiu say, in a large article, that, until today, Radu Budeanu's company has noticed that “trivializes the concept of decent press”. “In this conglomerate there is no journalism, but an imitation of journalism in all the titles of Very Low-Quality. The press is made, with any press idea. In the company Quality titles, led by the so-called journalist Radu Budeanu, are violated elementary rules of an area compromised to any appearance.”

Sidonia Bogdan: “For this I thank them”

“Dan Tapalaga and Cristi Pantazi have published and made many investigations, opinions, uncomfortable interviews,” writes journalist Sidonia Bogdan. “For this I thank them,” she adds. “The fact that they were sold to Budeanu is a sad news for journalism in Romania.”

Cătălin Tolontan: “Budeanu appeared as a professional box business, showing us all half a contract page”

The journalist Cătălin Tolontan wrote in Hotnews an opinion article entitled “Budeanu and G4Media – what is sold and what is not for sale”.

The article shows that for Budeanu it is a long -awaited day of glory. But the journalist believes that “nothing in the professional performance of the editorial G4Media from all these years has nothing to sow pessimism” compared to the possibility that the editorial G4 accepts interference in the editorial.

Dragoș Stanca: “If we do not like current investors in the press of public interest, we can invest. Individuals, companies, company”

Dragoș Stanca is an online entrepreneur, a former journalist and head of the media company and the initiator of the Ethical Media Alliance project, who is trying to support the independent press by allocating 1% of Romania's advertising on criteria other than strictly audience.

Stanca commented: “It remains as I wrote and said to anyone who had time to listen to me in the last few years: if we do not like current investors in the press of public interest, we can invest new.

“The sad news of the day, for me, is that the panorama is closed. If you do not want to be just the first news from a long string, solutions exist.”

Dragoș Stanca referred to a statement offered by the Zyx press group on Tuesday, announcing “announces the completion of the Panorama project.”

“It is not a surprise that, in the current economic context, the media loses its income and increases its expenses. Panorama was a site made by integral and competent journalists, to whom we thank for work, and Zyx also made important systematic efforts, but we reached a point where the continuation of the activity is no longer,” Group. Hotnews is part of the Zyx group.