The Media Discourse on the “ Health Care System Crisis”: Is there a negative political bias in Romanian newspapers coverage?
The Media Discourse on the “ Health Care System Crisis”: Is there a negative political bias in Romanian newspapers coverage?

Summary/Abstract: During the last years, public discourse on the “crisis of the health care system” in Romania soared to the extent that the crisis has come to be seen by many Romanians as an enduring feature of their health care sector. The article starts from the premise that media discourse on the “crisis of the health care system” offers a privileged perspective for dealing with matters at the intersection of media dis-course, health policy, organisational ensembles and social problems. What were the Romanian press’ news-gathering techniques used in the coverage of crisis of the health care system” in Romania in the last?” – this was the research question at at the basis of the present article. A content analysis of the coverage of a public health themes in Romania from 1st of January 2012 to November 2013 explored six hypotheses about news reporting and topic selection mostly derived from qualitatively based literature. There were analysed 2700 articles published in five daily newspapers (Adevarul, Gandul, Evenimentul zilei, Jurnalul National, Romania Libera) and on two aggregate on-line platforms (Ziare.com and Hotnews).

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