Media Education and Experts’ Analyses

Media education is still one of the concerns of the Independent Journalism Center (IJC). In addition to the meetings at schools and universities, which have already become traditional, a special section was initiated on the Media Azi portal (www.media-azi.md), “Media education: analyses,” supported by media experts and journalists, which will help media consumers better understand media products and see the difference between materials based on authentic facts and manipulating materials that lie or say only partial truth.

In the several analyses published so far in this section, we managed to draw readers’ attention to various aspects of manipulation through mass media. Media expert Ion Bunduchi, for example, examined headlines in the media. They often have elements that can mislead or send a manipulating message that is contrary to reality. In another material this author referred to the presumption of innocence, a principle that is often ignored by journalists, although the role of the media is to inform, and not give verdicts.

Cristina Mogildea, trainer at the School of Advanced Journalism, explained why it is important for the public to read materials in the press between the lines. In her two analyses, she proved by concrete examples that some journalistic texts can manipulate very subtly, through words and expressions that distort the truth and suggest certain deductions to readers, instead of presenting objective facts and let readers make their own opinion based on those facts.

The media education analyses published so far are now available on Media Azi: