Ciolacu. All the respect for the press people
Marcel Ciolacu sent a World Press Freedom Day message on Saturday.
The prime minister expresses respect for the press people who do their duty towards the public with professionalism and good faith.
‘All the respect for the press people who do their duty towards the public with professionalism and good faith. Quality journalism and promotion represents essential levers for a further evolution of the Romanian society in a direction that guarantees the development, respecting the values of democracy and freedom, ‘said Marcel Ciolacu in the message, according to a government statement.
According to the prime minister, ‘in a world marked in the last years of multiple and increasingly complex challenges, the correct and impregnating information of the public and respect for the truth means responsibility towards citizens-from journalists and press institutions and, at the same time, from state and political institutions’.
‘World Freedom Day of Press was established more than three decades ago, in order to raise awareness of the major role that freedom of expression has in modern society, to defend democratic values and fundamental rights. In a world marked in the last years of multiple and increasingly complex challenges, the correct and unpartarious information of the public and respect for the truth means responsibility for citizens-from journalists and press institutions and, at the same time, from the state and political institutions. This year’s theme of the World Day of Press Freedom highlights an extremely current aspect of evolution in disseminating information, namely the management of opportunities, but also of the potential dangers involved in the development of artificial intelligence. In the face of these challenges, the media is facing an evolution of the way of communication in which the right to freedom of expression, consecrated at the constitutional level, remains essential, and the use of artificial intelligence in promoting information and opinions must ensure the necessary balance between the good journalistic practices and the information with good faith, the public, the public.
In this context, says the head of the Executive, ‘Combating false news and misinterformation campaigns is an objective assumed at the government level, by coordinating interinstitutional actions aimed at implementing strategic communication and combating misinformation’.
« We remain firm in this direction and we rely in support of our actions on the media representatives, whose role is also decisive in the coherent and responsible approach of the themes that concern people and who, in no way, should not be transformed into misinformation and manipulation levers, » Marcel Ciolacu reports.
