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The Timisoara syndrome and the Panama invasion: communication, Public Relations and the sensitive issue of the death toll

LUCIAN-VASILE SZABO Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences, West University of Timişoara Abstract: At the end of 1989 two important events were marking the world’s media reality: the revolution in Romania which started in Timişoara, and the American invasion of Panama. It is somehow surprising that the American journalists were rather interested in the anticommunist

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Democracy deficit: from the revolution of Timişoara to the Proclamation of Timişoara

Lucian-Vasile SZABO – Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences, West University of Timişoara, Romania. ABSTRACT: In-depth research of the events which unfolded during the Revolution of Timişoara, and then during the first months of 1990, up until the Proclamation of Timişoara and its launch into the public sphere, made me realize the fact that the

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The Timişoara 1989 Case: A Turning Point in History and in Mass Media

Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Senior Lecturer Ph.D. Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences West University of Timisoara, Romania Abstract: The analysis of the Romanian and international press accounts regarding the dead of Timişoara, and of the manner in which these reports had been interpreted, between December 20th and 31st 1989, brings to attention an important aspect: the

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