Albania: Propaganda suffocates the news, just weeks before the general election
by Leon Menkshi
Albania ranks 76th in the Media Freedom Index 2017, published by Reporters Without Borders, while the Freedom House in its annual report designates the Albanian media as "partially free". Fake news and propaganda have always been present in the Albanian media landscape, and by being re-invented and justified in the ‘spirit’ of new media and reporting freedom, they are sadly growing and suffocating the real news.
Although Article 84* of the Albanian Electoral Code strictly forbids propaganda, as in comments or other political stances within news bulletins in the audio-visual media, a lot of Albanian radio and television…
