The significance of the amendments made to the Broadcasting Code is rather political in character. The impact of these changes can be easily annihilated because the noxious propaganda messages from programs that were banned can easily migrate to other programs, even culinary ones. Media education can be a solution for removing noxious propaganda. It is necessary for the guild to “swallow pills to get well” and do journalism, not to betray the profession, stated the executive director of the Electronic Press Association Ion Bunduchi, IPN reports.
In the program “Full stop and from the beginning” on Radio Free Europe, the media expert said the historic or culinary programs weren’t banned and propaganda can migrate to these. “I don’t think the preoccupation of the lawmakers was sweeping as nothing is said about the internal propaganda, but we have a lot of such propaganda. What should we do with this as it is not less noxious,” he stated.
Ion Bunduchi would like to believe that the national TV channels, as a result of these changes, would do their best to produce interesting programs as the current ones have become boring. “We know beforehand what a particular talk show will focus on. This is the fate of the party press. The party press is the most boring one as you know in advance what will be said there,” he stated.
Journalist Valeriu Renita said there where the money governs, the same recognizable things happen and the task of educating gradually disappears from the press. “So, entertainment is the most serious drug, which is followed by the others. The educative role of the press, about which students are taught in universities, is somehow lost and we cannot fix it. I think the press should be rethought. We should probably go back to the origins and find another way out,” he stated.
By February 12 this year, the broadcasters and distributors of media services that are within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Moldova are obliged to adjust their audiovisual program services and offers of retransmission services to the new audiovisual norms. Under the changes made to the Broadcasting Code, the broadcasters and distributors of media services will ensure the protection of consumers of information from possible misinformation or manipulation attempts from abroad. The law allows for the retransmission only of news, feature, military and political radio and television programs produced in the EU member states, the U.S., Canada and in the states that ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television.
