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During the communist era, Romania’s state-run television programs traditionally suffered from overt pro-government bias and excessive politicization. The post-communist authorities have been reluctant to loosen their grip on television, which they recognize as a highly efficient instrument of public manipulation. But growing competition from commercial stations is beginning to erode the once indisputable state monopoly […]