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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Romanian journalists untalented
The Romanian press landscape has been in a state of crisis since the beginning of the year. Newspapers have been closed and journalists laid off. However the real blame lies not with the global crisis but with the journalists themselves, writes Doru Buscu in the blog Voxpublica: "The press after 1989 was a refuge for marginals. A salon for rejects, a club for those who couldn't make it elsewhere. It was a gathering place for second-hand enthusiasts and lazy, banal social flotsam. And I know what I'm talking about, I'm part of it myself. ... I don't want to attack anyone, but the situation is a little like the fate of Romanian authors under communism. They couldn't publish their works full of talented allusion and innuendo under the dictator, and the whole world waited for Ceauşescu to die so that the literature could well forth from the desk drawers. The world waited, but what did it discover? Not a single masterpiece surfaced."
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More from the press review on the subject » Publishing houses, » Print media, » Media economy, » Romania
A German mayor for Bucharest?
Local elections will be held at the beginning of June in Romania. Doru Buscu thinks it would be a good idea to have a German female candidate for mayor in Bucharest, pointing out that there is already a German mayor in Spain and that the most popular mayor in France is an Englishman. A German candidate for Bucharest "would represent a new beginning in Romanian politics and would be wonderful PR and a great opportunity for this paralysed city. ... However this option has been blocked here in Romania: the laws governing local elections do not allow European citizens from other countries to be candidates in Romanian elections. This could have been changed by governmental decree ... but it was not. Somewhere along the way the idea was scrapped, or maybe it just disappeared. Nonetheless, it could resurface in the future. Christian Ude, the 61-year-old current mayor of Munich, would be a good choice for 2012, or Petra Roth, 64 years old and currently mayor of Frankfurt."
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