Traian Basescu wanted to show that he was a politician who risked denouncing a phenomenon of the media nowadays.

At the jubilee of the General Assembly of the Great Cities in Romania, Traian Basescu quickly went over the great problems of the Romanian city administrations in 2008 in order to say certain things regarding his speech on the Otopeni airport on Friday, the 14th of March 2008. The reason for that is the reaction of the newspapers and televisions in Romania to his attack against the media. President Traian Basescu wanted to say he didn’t attack the entire media, but some measures taken by a part of it. Therefore, the group of journalists that support the President no matter what said the President announced his position as far as the media was concerned on the airport. However, we believe that, on Saturday, the 15th of March 2008, the President did not announce his position. The Presdient did no more than to restate his position in a spectacular manner.

In Otopeni, as well as at the Mayors’ Assembly, Traian Basescu wanted to show that he was a politician who risked denouncing a phenomenon of the media nowadays. Under the circumstances in which certain people own parts of the media, many journalists develop great campaigns against the economical and political enemies of the owners of the newspapers they work for. These are campaigns in which they receive high sums of money from their bosses to say certain things in their articles. The theory according to which there are journalists that write on command bribed by interest groups isn’t new in the politician career of Traian Basescu. He said it when he was the mayor of Bucharest, when he ran for President and afterwards, when he became the Romanian President. He said the Adrian Nastase Government paid the journalists when he was the Mayor of Bucharest.

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