Romanian television a cheap fun fair

Romanian philosopher Andrei Pleşu looked in vain for analyses of his country's new education law on Romanian television. Instead he found nothing but a distortion of reality on every channel, he complains in the daily Adevărul: "Watching television you're confronted with a different Romania. Nothing really serious remains that way for long on the tube. With dizzying speed reality evolves into ridicule, hubbub and fun fair antics. Evening after evening, journalists and politicians do their best to maintain the mediocre spectacle, spewing out words, cheap jokes, gossip, abuse and theatrical lamentation. ... In such conditions despair becomes a strange sort of entertainment. You don't learn anything essential, nor do you hear clear or sober opinions on current topics. ... It's a cheap fun fair in which everything is hawked for a pittance."

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