Criticism of Antena 1

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Antena 1 and its child-stations have often been criticised for being too politicly-oriented since its owner, Dan Voiculescu, has become the leader of the PC party (which some see as the new PCR, because of Voiculescu's old affiliates with communism). As such, since about 2004 when the party was created and was propulsed by these televisions on the main political scene, the editorial way of putting news has shifted however the relations of the party needed. As such, the politicly use of this station has been highly criticised.

As an example, in 2004, when PC piggy-backed on Alianţa DA, from the critical views against that time's candidate to presidency Traian Băsescu, the station suddenly acclaimed him and the alliance. However, after PC was cataloged as an immoral solution, Antena 1 and the programs under it began a viscerous campaign against the now head of state, since PC's removal from guverning and until present (2008). The summer of 2008 is when one of the few people from the station that was still associated with true freedom of the press and speach, Mircea Badea, started a campaign against the current head of state (not the government under Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, as it is also against Băsescu) too.

Entertainers

Antena 1 wants to be viewed as an entertainment station oriented to the youth (which everyone wants to seem for some ten year or so in Romania), but many still see it a dusty station, not too much different from TVR RO. However, the station's reporters and highly respected announcers proved their entertaining worth at one of Voiculescu's birthday party (in 2007), where they were all invited to, yes, entertain their boss. This display of half-forced party reminded many of the times Nicolae Ceauşescu would arrange great feasts in his honor at his birthday celebrations, and that many of the top of the country's entertainers were gathered to sing and dance for him, sometimes coerced by the Securitate.