The role of the journalist and mass-media in the development of the society

• Author: Emilian Valentin Frâncu
• Position: Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality
• Pages: 72-77

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 3 (2013), pp. 72-77

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THE ROLE OF THE JOURNALIST AND MASS-MEDIA IN THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETY

E. V. Frâncu

Emilian-Valentin Frâncu

Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality

* Correspondence: Râmnicu Vâlcea, 14 G-ral Praporgescu St., Vâlcea, Romania

E-mail: emilian.francu@senat.ro

Abstract

Referring to the role of the press, some researchers in the domain, who have mentally

represented the existence of the modern society in the absence of the mass-media, concluded

that, in spite of all the shortcomings of the journalist activities, one could not entirely imagine

the human existence without being accompanied and influenced by the media.

Keywords: journalist, mass-media, information, press, development

Introduction

The establishment of the modern democracy has led to the growth of the press’

importance, which took action in three main directions as to consolidate the democratic

process in his totality; the relation between the persons led and the leaders in terms of public

control on the political powers by means of the journalists; the relation between the persons

led and the leader, referring to the mobilisation of the citizens and their consciousness

regarding political decisions; the relation between the citizens, referring to the free

competition of ideas. Thus, the journalists must represent a strong binding agent between

power and public, between society and politics or between particular persons, as the mass-

media is envisaged as an absolute communication environment, the only environment capable

of mediating the bonds between the masses in modern societie.

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Information – indispensable factor for the evolution of the inter-human relations

The need for information constitutes a characteristic trait of the human being from the

oldest times, which is emphasized permanently, along with the evolution of society, the

evolution of the complexity of social relation at the local or international level, with the

progress of science and technique, in all domains of activity, along with the multiplication of

the events which are important for the community, etc.

Information– as a primordial ontological factor which stands, along with mater and

energy, at the origins of the universe- represents one of the main components of the human

existence, without which the progress of the society, under all its aspects and the life itself of

every human would be inconceivable in its absence. It is mainly revealed by means of the

journalists by different means of communication such as: journals, papers, broadcasting,

television, internet, etc.

The word “information”, which was taken from Latin, (informatio) by means of the

French language (information), has a polysemantic character, due to the numerous senses

which are imposed by the various domains and contexts in which they are used. Thus, except

for the meanings used currently, it also embodies other sense, attributed either by defining

itself as a term (scientific or technical), either as a concept within certain branches of

philosophy or other sciences and technologies whose object of study it represents

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D. Pop, Mass-media i democraia, Polirom Publishing House, Iai, 2 001, p. 217.

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The notion of information refers to an informational process (informing activities), at the result of this process

(the volume, variety of information obtained), as well as certain specific phenomenon (the informational