Romanian Newsletters – Libertatea
Today I wanted to know what happens in Romania as I have disconnected quite a lot lately. As I have seen a post in Alina’s blog about Libertatea I wanted to read it to see what they say, if they are still on the line writing absurd news that have nothing to do with what’s actually new and important.
So I found out that Mutu has a child! What a news! I guess this is most striking for the Romanian people as ultimately we only received news about the new drugs that he used. Well done, man!
We can also find out from this newspaper that one girl, Simona (not me) kissed Borat and has a paper in the movie with the same name. Quite ok until now, if only the romanians would stop talking about the charisma of the Romanian women. They say that after the kiss that they had to record for the movie there were more kisses. Ok, this is due to the charisma of the girl, not to the fact that she is Romanian. I defend Romania wherever I go, but let’s get serious.
Nadia Comaneci also has a child, Dylan. In Libertatea one of the first news talk about this littel boy’s grandfather. They say that his grandfather payed his university already (the kid is only 6 months old). It seems a quite nice present to me. Anyone wants to pay my studies, please? Quite a pity I don’t have a rich grandfather, or a poor one…
They also talk about the death of the oldest person in the world, about some “condom testers” that Durex is searching for, about the 25-fingers baby, about the speech of the British vicepresident, John Prescott, whose teeth fell down from his mouth while he was speaking.
Quite interesting news but are they really important? I never used to read Libertatea, and I will definitely not recommend it to anyone. I dislike they flowerish manner of presenting the news, and their selection method: they only put news that can impress, lots of emotional articles that have the same objective: make people buy the newspaper, so that they have a great audience, this would lead to more advertising, therefore they would have more money. All fine, but, wasn’t the objective of the newspapers to inform the population? Correct me if I’m wrong.
I will try to read more of the online newspapers to find my favourite and will comment them all here. For the moment, Libertatea is rejected.
Actually, information is only one of their purposes. One of ultimate importance, but other goals such as education and entertainment should also be taken into account. I don’t mind tabloids that much. I choose to ignore them. The real problem is that we don’t really have “serious” newspapers. Most of them are sensational-driven at times, unfortunately…
Alina Popescu
14 Dec 06 at 9:03