Author(s): Matei BLĂNARU
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2023
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 1 (29)/2023
DOI:
Abstract:
In regard to public and strategic modern communication, at least in one respect
everybody agrees – there are serious issues and ever larger categories of population seem
to be increasingly difficult to reach by official messages and narratives, there are
increasingly numerous left and right radicals and consensus, social cohesion and trust in
authority and institutions is ever decreasing not only in Romania, but throughout the
Western world. Not to mention proliferation of fake news, disinformation and conspiracy
theories. The simple question is “Why?” But, going a bit further, the subsequent question
this analysis is asking is whether “Do we really care to know why or we do not?” Are we
really ready to know why and to admit why? Or are we the senders of public
communication, part of the problem, and not only the recipients, the lack of education, as
we like to think, or just hostile entities like the Russian Federation or others? As
Stănciugelu et al. (2014, p. 338) stated that: Have we not diverted from the status of public
communication issued by an impartial sender, as theory states it should be?
Keywords: disinformation, fake news, communication, sociological bias,
ideology, superiority complex.
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