Some considerations about United States press perceptions at the beginning of 1918: Konrad Bercovici role in analyzing the Romania situation
Some considerations about United States press perceptions at the beginning of 1918: Konrad Bercovici role in analyzing the Romania situation

Summary/Abstract: The present study tries to highlight some perceptions of Romania situation, in February-March 1918, in a very dramatic situation, in which the existence of the state was at stake. In the United States journals there are countless articles about Romania in the First World War but our interest is focused not on the news about the war but on the large written analyzes, in which Romania, its decisions and destiny, are the main topics. We are interested in a special case, in which the attitude toward Romania vary from an understanding surrounded with incertitude (in one article) to a more optimistic view, which could lead us to the idea of an article of propaganda (the second article). This two attitudes are expressed in the same journal, “The Sun”, and are separated by a month (one in February, 1918, one in March same year) and, more interesting, belong to the same journalist, Konrad Bercovici, originated from Romania.

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