Campania de advocacy a Centrului pentru Jurnalism Independent (CJI) pentru modificarea legii privind accesul la informație, desfășurată anul trecut, s-a soldat cu elaborarea unui proiect de lege, pe care CJI l-a transmis parlamentului spre examinare. Vineri, 11 martie, proiectul CJI a fost înregistrat de către un grup de deputați neafiliați, urmând să fie supus dezbaterilor în plen. În opinia expertei în legislația mass-media, Tatiana Puiu, adoptarea cât mai rapidă a noilor modificări înregistrate reprezintă o necesitate, și nu un capriciu al societății civile.

Media concentration, or “berlusconization”, as it has been called, is probably one of the biggest problems for Moldovan media. First, it involves the interference of politics in this sector, and second, we cannot speak of fair and impartial mass media as long as it is guided by certain interests from the outside, providing incorrect and non-neutral information. Also, we cannot speak of free press when it is at the whim of a person or a group of persons (politicians or businessmen in some cases; these two categories usually are not clearly separated in Moldova).

The advocacy campaign of the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) for modifying the law on access to information, which was conducted last year, resulted in the development of a draft law that the IJC sent to the Parliament for examination. On Friday, March 11, the IJC’s draft was registered by a group of non-affiliated MPs and it is now going to be debated in the plenum. According to media law expert Tatiana Puiu, quick adoption of the new modifications is a necessity, and not a whim of the civil society.

The Independent Journalism Center (IJC) continues media literacy activities for media consumers within a new project launched in March.