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“With great pain in our souls, we announce the passing of the former Octavian Andronic, a journalist and cartoonist of incomparable courage.
Dear ANDO, wife Mariana, daughter Ana, the people close to you and all the collaborators who had the honor of working with you throughout the decades, will miss you from now on!
May God rest in peace! ”Wrote the journalist and cartoonist’s colleagues from AmosNew, the project he has been coordinating lately.
Octavian Andronic was 74 years old. He was hospitalized a week ago, and eventually COVID-19 killed him on Friday night.
He was the founder of the newspaper Libertatea.
How you saw the press at the beginning of this fatal year
“The new year brings with it an empty place in the index of daily publications: Evenimentul Zilei stopped appearing on paper after almost 28 years in which it was – sometimes more, sometimes less – a benchmark of the attitude of the press towards society. Unlike the publications that went through the Revolution with new or tight clothing, the event was an absolute novelty, especially because of its approach to everyday issues, not being able to search in areas considered unworthy or completely infrequent. on behalf of an audience less and less willing to put their mind to the contribution to read between the lines (according to a long exercise) what journalists want to say.
The founder of the newspaper, Ion Cristoiu, rediscovered the tabloidism that the public needed and removed the stopper from the jar in which the natural need for gossip and distrust had arisen, whose aromas little by little overwhelmed the media space. If the event was the most important novelty of the most important decade of the free press, the media space was dominated by newspapers that had the inspiration and strength to overcome the condition of transmission belts of ideological indications and find their fundamental purpose in – a world released suddenly, almost unexpectedly, from censorship and ideological dogmatism. It was Liberty’s opportunity to be a true pioneer, signaling liberation and a return to the fundamental tools of journalism. They followed, in different ways and with the necessary adjustments, Scânteia (not without first passing through the scene of Scânteii Poporului, with his disconcerting call: “Communists, put your hands to arms!”), And Romania free than martyrdom de Petre Mihai Băcanu relieved her of the need to change the title, which in the new situation even sounded premonitory, “the journalist wrote in an editorial in January.
