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The current article highlights the way in which a precarious cultural level of journalists - especially from television - can have serious social and political consequences. The text speaks about the cultural media sphere and the shortcomings that make the manipulation possible, such as: education deficiencies in the spiritual area of beliefs, religions, confessions, obvious shortcomings in a European Union that has refused to recognize its Judeo-Christian roots in its Constitution. In the context of ignorance and lack of knowledge of some basic elements of our history, the unprepared and poorly educated public opinion can easily be manipulated. It is clear, therefore, that lack of cultural knowledge can lead to serious media communication errors that can lead to further manipulation. The text includes media cases from the so sensitive sphere of spiritual life, where both politicians and journalists, but also the general public, more often than not, have questionable knowledge. Area, where, the general culture, but also the nuances, are compulsory, but also responsible for the long-standing beliefs of the public.
Keywords: cultural manipulation, media, freedom of expression, cultural criterion, symbolic transfer.
1.MANIPULATION - CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS
The manipulation is the act of influencing the public opinion through specific means, and the result is that the manipulated persons have the impression that they act according to their own ideas and interests, but in fact, they take up an idea, an opinion, an argument or an evaluation that does not belong to them, opinion induced through various means of manipulation. Among these techniques for manipulation we can identify: the rumor, the misinformation, the intoxication and the propaganda.
The first one, the rumor, being also defined as a statement that is presented as true, without the possibility of checking its correctness one way or the other, is released because it has a double function, that of explaining but also of alleviating the emotional tensions created by its being spread. The spread of rumors depends on the social institutions, the social contexts, the organizational and broadcasting system of the formal information, the personality traits of the individuals who create and spread the rumor.
Usually, rumors tend to adjust according to individual interests, and not only, but also to personal prejudices or social affiliations of the person who...