{"id":442226,"date":"2016-06-18T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T08:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442226"},"modified":"2016-06-18T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T08:31:39","slug":"freedom-house-report-press-freedom-moldova-remains-constrained-partisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/freedom-house-report-press-freedom-moldova-remains-constrained-partisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom House report: Press freedom in Moldova remains constrained by partisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Freedom House published a detailed report on the press freedom, political, legal and economic environments in Moldova in 2016. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/freedom-press\/2016\/moldova\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, there is a downward trend in all the measurements, despite efforts of the civil society to change legislation: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRESS FREEDOM STATUS: Partly free<br \/>\nLEGAL ENVIRONMENT: 17\/30 (0=BEST, 30=WORST)<br \/>\nPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT: 21 \/ 40 (\u21932) (0=BEST, 40=WORST)<br \/>\nECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: 18 \/ 40 (\u21931) (0=BEST, 30=WORST)<br \/>\nPRESS FREEDOM SCORE: 56 \/ 100 (\u21931) (0=BEST, 100=WORST)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, Freedom House points out that key developments happened in Moldova: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-In March 2015, the parliament passed amendments to the broadcasting code that, among other things, require radio and television companies to disclose the names and stakes of their owners and the names of board members, managers, broadcasters, and producers.<br \/>\n-The authorities barred several journalists from Russian outlets from entering Moldova.<br \/>\n-Government agencies and officials made a number of pronounced efforts to obstruct journalistic access to public information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of legal environment, the institute&#8217;s opinion is that poor implementation of laws and Constitution leads to violations or neglects rights. Even the new Broadcasting code is seen as vague by the OSCE mission and wanted just to push back the Russian propaganda. The press groups continue to have obstacles in obtaining public information. Even the main regulatory agency, the Audiovisual Coordinating Council, remains to be influenced by politics and is used to warn or punish critical media outlets. <\/p>\n<p>What concerns the political environment, the media outlets are often &#8220;used to advance the business or political interests of their owners&#8221;. Even the public broadcaster, Teleradio-Moldova, was attempted to be influenced by the government coalition. The political influence over media is described by Freedom House as such:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Generally, the monitors found that major national broadcasters Prime TV, Publika TV, Canal 2, and Canal 3 exhibited strong bias in favor of the center-left Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), which along with the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) forms the country\u2019s ruling coalition. The channels are registered under the General Media Group, which is owned by business magnate and PDM power broker Vladimir Plahotniuc. According to the CCA, TV7 and N4 exhibited a slant toward the PLDM; Jurnal TV provided coverage that was heavily critical of the ruling coalition; and Accent TV showed bias in favor of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). Pro TV Chi\u0219in\u0103u and the public Moldova 1 provided balanced content. The CCA issued warnings and minimum fines to several private television broadcasters during the electoral period, but overall it was unable to enforce regulations on fair, balanced, and impartial coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russian-language press is either limited or used for propaganda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian-language media play a prominent role, and many local stations rebroadcast content from both private and state-owned Russian outlets; locally produced content in the Russian language is limited. In 2015, government officials continued to express alarm about the dissemination of misinformation and propaganda from Russian state-controlled outlets. In May, the CCA fined four private television stations that carry Russian-language programming and temporarily suspended retransmissions of Russia\u2019s state-owned Rossiya 24, finding that the channels manipulated public opinion and distorted facts in their coverage of current affairs in Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The economic environment remains to be insecure for the media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private media remain highly dependent on financial subsidies and advertising revenue from owners as well as affiliated businesses and political groups, rather than market-driven advertising and subscriptions. The allocation of state advertising and subsidies is poorly regulated and often nontransparent, allowing government agencies to favor certain outlets. Economic pressures continued to force media outlets to cut costs and shift from print to online operations in 2015. Online news portals and social media are popular. Approximately 47 percent of the population had access to the internet as of 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report does&#8217;t include information on conditions in Transnistria.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/freedom-house-report-moldova-is-degrading-in-terms-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on freedom &#8220;Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democracies: Global Freedom under Pressure&#8221;, Freedom House ranked Moldova with 60 points out 100 and labeled it as &#8220;Partly Free&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Freedom House published a detailed report on the press freedom, political, legal and economic environments in Moldova in 2016. According to the report, there is a downward trend in all the measurements, despite efforts of the civil society to change legislation: PRESS FREEDOM STATUS: Partly free LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: 17\/30 (0=BEST, 30=WORST) POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT: 21 \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":442227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-en","category-society"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Freedom House published a detailed report on the press freedom, political, legal and economic environments in Moldova in 2016. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/freedom-press\/2016\/moldova\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, there is a downward trend in all the measurements, despite efforts of the civil society to change legislation: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRESS FREEDOM STATUS: Partly free<br \/>\nLEGAL ENVIRONMENT: 17\/30 (0=BEST, 30=WORST)<br \/>\nPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT: 21 \/ 40 (\u21932) (0=BEST, 40=WORST)<br \/>\nECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: 18 \/ 40 (\u21931) (0=BEST, 30=WORST)<br \/>\nPRESS FREEDOM SCORE: 56 \/ 100 (\u21931) (0=BEST, 100=WORST)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, Freedom House points out that key developments happened in Moldova: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-In March 2015, the parliament passed amendments to the broadcasting code that, among other things, require radio and television companies to disclose the names and stakes of their owners and the names of board members, managers, broadcasters, and producers.<br \/>\n-The authorities barred several journalists from Russian outlets from entering Moldova.<br \/>\n-Government agencies and officials made a number of pronounced efforts to obstruct journalistic access to public information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of legal environment, the institute&#8217;s opinion is that poor implementation of laws and Constitution leads to violations or neglects rights. Even the new Broadcasting code is seen as vague by the OSCE mission and wanted just to push back the Russian propaganda. The press groups continue to have obstacles in obtaining public information. Even the main regulatory agency, the Audiovisual Coordinating Council, remains to be influenced by politics and is used to warn or punish critical media outlets. <\/p>\n<p>What concerns the political environment, the media outlets are often &#8220;used to advance the business or political interests of their owners&#8221;. Even the public broadcaster, Teleradio-Moldova, was attempted to be influenced by the government coalition. The political influence over media is described by Freedom House as such:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Generally, the monitors found that major national broadcasters Prime TV, Publika TV, Canal 2, and Canal 3 exhibited strong bias in favor of the center-left Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), which along with the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) forms the country\u2019s ruling coalition. The channels are registered under the General Media Group, which is owned by business magnate and PDM power broker Vladimir Plahotniuc. According to the CCA, TV7 and N4 exhibited a slant toward the PLDM; Jurnal TV provided coverage that was heavily critical of the ruling coalition; and Accent TV showed bias in favor of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). Pro TV Chi\u0219in\u0103u and the public Moldova 1 provided balanced content. The CCA issued warnings and minimum fines to several private television broadcasters during the electoral period, but overall it was unable to enforce regulations on fair, balanced, and impartial coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russian-language press is either limited or used for propaganda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian-language media play a prominent role, and many local stations rebroadcast content from both private and state-owned Russian outlets; locally produced content in the Russian language is limited. In 2015, government officials continued to express alarm about the dissemination of misinformation and propaganda from Russian state-controlled outlets. In May, the CCA fined four private television stations that carry Russian-language programming and temporarily suspended retransmissions of Russia\u2019s state-owned Rossiya 24, finding that the channels manipulated public opinion and distorted facts in their coverage of current affairs in Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The economic environment remains to be insecure for the media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private media remain highly dependent on financial subsidies and advertising revenue from owners as well as affiliated businesses and political groups, rather than market-driven advertising and subscriptions. The allocation of state advertising and subsidies is poorly regulated and often nontransparent, allowing government agencies to favor certain outlets. Economic pressures continued to force media outlets to cut costs and shift from print to online operations in 2015. Online news portals and social media are popular. Approximately 47 percent of the population had access to the internet as of 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report does&#8217;t include information on conditions in Transnistria.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/freedom-house-report-moldova-is-degrading-in-terms-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on freedom &#8220;Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democracies: Global Freedom under Pressure&#8221;, Freedom House ranked Moldova with 60 points out 100 and labeled it as &#8220;Partly Free&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/freedom-house-report-press-freedom-moldova-remains-constrained-partisanship\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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