Abstract
The article examines press coverage of the 1992 presidential and parliamentary elections in Romania, the second free national elections after the December 1989 revolution that toppled the Ceausescu dictatorship. Coverage was quantitatively tilted toward three of the nine political parties that won seats in Romania's parliament. The journalistic discourse found in the news and feature stories lacked journalistic detachment and neutrality, emphasized a literary style, and relied on the same sources in its presentation with little feedback from its readers. Romania's press in 1992 still lacked the professionalism and, therefore, the credibility to be effective re-socialization and education tools in the struggle to democratize the nation.
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