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Nowadays, in times that Ralph Keyes (2004) called the post-truth era, there is an obvious trend towards embellishing or re-shaping the truth until it gets diluted into what the author of this dilution desires and is interested in. The term vested interests coined by William Crano (1995) may account for the background motivation that may lead towards this widely resorted to distortion of the truth so that it may fit the aims of the distorter. When referring to vested interests, the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary specifies the existence of interests in influencing others so that some benefits may be obtained or preserved. According to Crano (1995, pp. 131-158), "if the attitude object is subjectively important and the perceived personal consequences are significant, there will be a greater chance the individual's attitude will be expressed behaviorally". Such aspects of communication may have strong economic impact, and are therefore crucially significant when they manifest in the main stream media in the field, i.e., in the most important economical publications.Economic vested interests may thus have a great impact and bring about the tampering with the truth, mostly on key topics like fiscal policies. Our content analysis of a research corpus of 210 news stories (that got elicited online starting from the keywords "progressive/flat tax") in the two Romanian economic dailies that have the largest circulation, Ziarul Financiar (9200 copies), and Financiarul (8500 copies), in the time span 10th January 2008 -28th February 2019 has revealed intriguing facts. We have selected such a time span because Financiarul published its very first issue on the 10th of January 2008. The keywords "progressive/flat tax" were chosen as the economic stake of such a topic that they refer to is quite high and it consequently may then trigger strong vested interests and the temptation to tamper with the truth. The fair distribution of the tax burden (Peter Diamond, Emmanuel Saez, 2011, p.165), and the model of optimal tax theory and practice arouse significant interest, mostly on the part of large businesses that engender high profit rates.We tackled the news story headlines and leads that contain the mentioned keywords, as such story parts comprise the main point of stories. However, the whole orientation of the stories was taken into account for the gist that is relevant with regard to our research aims to reveal some post-truth communication mechanisms involved in economical gearing towards vested interests, in order to better critically understand and be able to strengthen democracy and economic fairness.According to our findings, in Ziarul Financiar, 28 % of the headlines and leads explicitly tackled the issue, whilst in Financiarul, almost 74 % bluntly referred to the progressive and to the flat tax. There were also clear differences in point of the newsworthiness quota ̶ a term or concept that is aimed to be coined here ̶ allotted by the two dailies to the topic of progressive versus flat tax. Moreover, content specifica...
Communication has to do with influence that has impact on the life of those involved in the communication process, mostly when this communication refers to political campaigning. Inspired by the research on stress performed by the endocrinologist Hans Selye (1974), we aimed at investigating the polarity of meaning in the language of electoral campaign, in order to check if this kind of communication gets more polarized in terms of meaning as the campaign is approaching its end towards the polls. The discourse analysis corpus was that of six comparable Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump transcript excerpts from speeches at various stages earlier and later throughout the campaign for the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S.A. The results of our analysis have shown that Donald Trump's campaign discourses were generally significantly more polarized than those of Hilary Clinton's. The most generally polarized discourse was, by far, that of Trump on immigration, and the least generally polarized was Trump's at an event (Al Smith Dinner). The most positively polarized was Hilary Clinton's on immigration, and the least positively charged was Trump's referring to the great leader. The most negatively polarized discourse was Trump's one on immigration, as it reached more than 10 % of negative words, whereas the least negatively polarized was Hilary Clinton's on national service.
International audienceThe presence of French films in Romania after the Second World War was mainly the result of the trading activities of private companies (distribution companies, rental houses, etc.). Unlike during the pre-war period, the French diplomatic machine intervened then more often in favor of a movie or a company. It played the intermediary between the various actors, both public and private, as well as between French and Rumanian partners. The main objective of the French diplomacy was to maintain the cultural presence in Romania, but it came up against the strong resistance and the hostility of the Rumanian authorities supported by the Soviets who, in the context of the Cold War and of the ideological blocks, set up obstacles for the import of western movies. This article analyzes the actions and the strategies of French diplomats to protect French movies on Romanian screens and captures some of the Romanian reactions through the import policy or the censorship rules.La présence cinématographique française en Roumanie après la Seconde Guerre mondiale repose principalement sur les actions marchandes de sociétés privées (maisons de location, sociétés de distributions, etc.), mais à la différence de la période d’avant-guerre, la machine diplomatique française se met marche pour soutenir par des interventions ponctuelles un film, une société, en faisant l’interface entre les différents partenaires publics et privés, français et roumains. L’objectif principal des Français est de maintenir la présence culturelle en Roumanie, mais il se heurte à la forte résistance et hostilité des autorités roumaines épaulées par les Soviétiques qui, dans le contexte de Guerre froide et de formation des blocs idéologiques, érigent des barrières à l’importation des films occidentaux. Cet article analyse les actions et les stratégies entreprises par la diplomatie française pour préserver le film français sur les écrans roumains et saisit les réactions roumaines à travers la politique des importations ou les règles de censure
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