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Рy17 December 2015
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On November 12 the media lessons organized by the Centre for Independent Journalism reached the Trade Co-operative University from Moldova (TCUM). In a meeting attended by the media expert Ion Terguta the students had the opportunity to learn more about the administration of a media business and why it is important to know who the real media institutions owners are.
At the same time, they learnt about the relationship between editorial policy of a press institution and the political background of its owner: how the political control of the press and, therefore, the manipulation of the citizens take place by means of the press.
The internal and external propaganda, which sometimes uses apparently innocent tools, like movies, has also been addressed within the lesson. In this context, the expert challenged students to discussions on materials the national and international press provides to detect propagandistic elements and to identify the manipulation procedures used by the authors.
The students were informed about sources that journalists use to call upon when they write press materials. According to the Code of Conduct, the sources must be presented especially in the news that address critically specific persons.
At the end of the meeting, the students summarized the main things they learnt in this lesson. Anastasia Bulavinov mentioned that this lesson was very useful for her and now she knows how to distinguish a reliable source from a manipulating one and that it is very important to carefully select the sources to inform ourselves and how much information we believe is true. Her colleague, Aliona Iurciuc, told she understood why the manipulation by means of media is such a frequent phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova- because the politicians need votes and use the press in they interests. The general conclusion the students made was that they must be vigilant when reading the press to never get into various media “traps”.
At the same time, they learnt about the relationship between editorial policy of a press institution and the political background of its owner: how the political control of the press and, therefore, the manipulation of the citizens take place by means of the press.
The internal and external propaganda, which sometimes uses apparently innocent tools, like movies, has also been addressed within the lesson. In this context, the expert challenged students to discussions on materials the national and international press provides to detect propagandistic elements and to identify the manipulation procedures used by the authors.
The students were informed about sources that journalists use to call upon when they write press materials. According to the Code of Conduct, the sources must be presented especially in the news that address critically specific persons.
At the end of the meeting, the students summarized the main things they learnt in this lesson. Anastasia Bulavinov mentioned that this lesson was very useful for her and now she knows how to distinguish a reliable source from a manipulating one and that it is very important to carefully select the sources to inform ourselves and how much information we believe is true. Her colleague, Aliona Iurciuc, told she understood why the manipulation by means of media is such a frequent phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova- because the politicians need votes and use the press in they interests. The general conclusion the students made was that they must be vigilant when reading the press to never get into various media “traps”.
The media education classes are conducted within the project “Freedom of expression and media development in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and South Caucasus", implemented by CIJ during the period May-September 2015, supported by Deutsche Welle Akademie and financed by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development”.
