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Manipularea politică în editorialele din presa literară (1948-1958)
Political Manipulation in the Editorials of the Literary Press (1948-1958)

Author(s): Dragoș Bako
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: editorial, the party, ideology, press

Summary/Abstract: The main text from this period is built on an apparent opposition between two different visions of reality, being unsigned and indicating the direction of the magazine or newspaper. The text refers to the way in which the doctrine of the party propose the direction of art. The dream is prohibited, because the man was supposed to be part of a perfect society and gave him everything he needed. The need for intimacy, of silence, of experiencing inner refused to be replaced with membership in the community, to the common good. The biggest sin is to remove people isolated from the "masses", participating in joint actions, and the editorialist feels able to draw attention to this danger which threatens the bourgeois ideology in the nets. The idea of conspiracy, recourse to theories designed to destabilize society, is repeated in each of the propagandistic texts, related to the promotion of political ideology.

  • Issue Year: 15/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 95-106
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian