PRESENTATION OF THE CORRUPTION PHENOMENON IN THE ROMANIAN PRESS
PRESENTATION OF THE CORRUPTION PHENOMENON IN THE ROMANIAN PRESS

Author(s): Iuliana Ungureanu
Subject(s): Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: corruption; news; mass media;
Summary/Abstract: In democratic states, mass media is an important instrument in monitoring the behavior of public officials, companies and implicitly corruption. For this reason, newspaper publications refer to a multitude of important events, including those related to corruption. In this context, the paper aims to study news published in newspapers with an economic profile, which are about corruption, in order to identify how to present the phenomenon of corruption in Romania. To achieve the objective, the qualitative method of analysing the content of corruption publications presented in Ziarul Financiar from January 2019 to March 2021 was addressed. The analysis carried out shows that the phenomenon of corruption is very often brought to the attention of the Romanian people and that the subjects vary greatly because are presented articles related to: corruption investigations, combating corruption, the consequences of corruption, political corruption, COVID-19 and corruption, legislative changes on corruption, opinions on corruption and statistics. The results indicate that during the period under review there have been many cases of corruption that have been investigated, the subject of legislative changes on corruption has been hotly debated and there has been an interest and a need to inform the public about the fight against corruption, the political corruption and general views on corruption. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a stir among the entire population, this topic related to corruption has been less debated.

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