Abstract
In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989. He discovered that the war was to a large extent instigated by the mass media. Nowadays, the media have the possibility to decontextualize events and objectify them by placing them in a different context, alongside other decontextualized events. This could be very dangerous and lead to serious national security problems. Media could provoke social turbulence and “real” crimes. My aim in this paper is to describe this problem and show possible solutions. While following the methodology adopted, I examine case studies and analyze specific historical events.
Highlights
In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989
Baudrillard gave an example of the civil war in Romania (Baudrillard, 1995)
Nicolae Ceausescu, the leader of communist Romania, together with his wife, were shot without trial and sentence. This was accepted by journalists as a logical consequence of the civil war in Romania
Summary
In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989. In his The Requiem for the Media, Jean Baudrillard, the famous French philosopher of the mid-20th c., described how the TV news programs had been able to create events that had nothing to do with reality but at the same time they had serious public implications. With the rise of the network society, according to the media analyst Ivan Krastev, the Bulgarian society is entering a new kind of Middle Ages, in the sense of the Dark Ages, in which people are more inclined to believe in virtual images from the TV screen rather than national authorities.
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