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In an analysis of the media in Albania, Fatjona Mejdini, director of the South East European Observatory against Organized Crime, presented a disturbing picture of the way information circulates.
"Journalism has become a lonely profession," she said,
"There are five reporters in Albania reporting from the field. Then there are 50 others circulating this information, and 500 others analyzing it in the studio."
This structure, where a small number of journalists produce the original news that is then recycled and commented on endlessly, points to a fundamental problem in the media. Going deeper, Medini confirmed without hesitation the existence of a dark phenomenon: the collaboration of journalists with the criminal world.
"Yes, we definitely have journalists who collaborate with organized crime. We have journalists who collaborate with corrupt politicians, who are paid to distort the truth, or who are paid to remain silent," she declared as a guest on the show Dekalog.
According to her, the damage done to the public by a journalist collaborating with a criminal is no less than the damage done by a journalist collaborating with a corrupt politician.
"There are enough," she added, emphasizing that the problem is not a lack of willing journalists, but a lack of structures and owners who are willing to foot the 'bill' of independent and investigative journalism.
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