MYTHISTORY AND MANIPULATION IN THE ROMANIAN JOURNALISM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. CASE STUDY: THE MAGAZINE ‘RĂZBOIUL POPOARELOR’  (‘THE WAR OF THE PEOPLES’) (1914-1915) Cover Image

MITISTORIE SI MANIPULARE IN PRESA ROMANEASCA DIN TIMPUL PRIMULUI RAZBOI MONDIAL. STUDIU DE CAZ: REVISTA „RAZBOIUL POPOARELOR” (1914-1915)
MYTHISTORY AND MANIPULATION IN THE ROMANIAN JOURNALISM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. CASE STUDY: THE MAGAZINE ‘RĂZBOIUL POPOARELOR’ (‘THE WAR OF THE PEOPLES’) (1914-1915)

Author(s): DORIN PETRESC
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Aeternitas
Keywords: History; manipulation; collective imaginary; First World War; the history of Romanian journalism; the history of mentalities;

Summary/Abstract: In a period, when we commemorate the centenary of the First World War, we propose a brief analysis of the Romanian media war, approached from the perspective of binomial „History and Handling”, with the focus of the case study on the journal Bucharest, „The war of nations. Chronicle of Blood Years 1914-1916 events”. The editorial staff of this publication, appeared between 1914-1916, offers the readers a comprehensive chronicle of the events from various meridians, trying to outline the war progress, „step by step”. Essentially, even discreetly handled, the reader was informed of a several foreign sources, on the first two years of the First World War, those of Romanian neutrality, to crystallize the pro Antanta and definition of the national interest. A hundred years after those events, the magazine “The war of nations” can be considered as one of the first projects of frontline journalism in our country, representing a particular aspect of the history of Romanian and European media. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2015.6.17

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 239-255
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian