How the "free" press emerged after 1989
Brothers, what you are watching now is the first episode of a series that we have been preparing for many, many months. Today we will talk about how the free press emerged in the 90s and the series we are inaugurating is about the 90s in general. In addition to the press, there are topics such as: what was MISA or the Movement for Spiritual Integration in general, the bankruptcy of Bancorex, how hip-hop emerged in Romania, how life was in the 90s, how moguls emerged, how televisions emerged and what a huge impact they had on Romanians and many others. At the end of 1989, as soon as the revolutionary waters calmed down, people were euphorically living the first days of freedom and most of them had a huge need for information. It was not a new desire. For decades, no Romanian had had a free press, information that was not censored by the party, so the thirst for newspapers was great. So big that they sold millions of copies daily and, at the beginning of the 90s, all Romanians had three things in their apartments: a fish on the TV, a bag of bags in the drawer and a huge stack of newspapers around the house. We were all equipped with lots and lots of newsprint and this paper was used for many other things after the newspaper was read. We all remember the packages prepared by housewives for their husbands, which they quickly stuffed into their briefcases before leaving for work. Until the first break, the not very substantial sandwiches of the 90s rested wrapped in newsprint, from which, sometimes, young ladies from all over the world smiled doubtfully. In Romania, the culture shock of the 90s came wrapped in newsprint. Because, undoubtedly, before television, before second-hand businessmen or entrepreneurs woke up and discovered the power of the screen, it was the newspapers that set the tone. Before the televisions of Adrian Sârbu, Dan Voiculescu, Sorin Ovidiu Vântu and other media moguls, there was the printed press, there were the authors of articles and editorials, such as Ion Cristoiu, Cornel Nistorescu, Petre Mihai Băcanu, Octavian Andronic, Dumitru Tinu, Adrian Păunescu, Sorin Roşca Stănescu or Corneliu Vadim Tudor. There were also, for a time, the great writers of the "Golden Age", now transformed into chroniclers of capitalism, such as Eugen Barbu, Augustin Buzura, Fănuş Neagu or Petre Sălcudeanu. In an instant, like Prince Charming, the newspapers of the old regime turned upside down, shook off their shackles and transformed into free press.
Text written by historian Constantin Vasilescu
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