Ion Cristoiu
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Ion Cristoiu(Romanian pronunciation:[iˈonkrisˈtoju];born 16 November 1948,Găgești,Vrancea County) is aconservative[1]Romanianjournalist, writer, and political analyst.
Career
[edit]He waseditor-in-chiefof the dailyEvenimentul Zileiduring its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600,000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, afterRomânia liberă(circulation 1 million)[2]and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well.[3]He also founded or played a major role at a number of the weekly publications during that era:Expres,Expres Magazin,andZig-Zag.All these publications were highly critical of presidentIon Iliescu.[2]
He was also the anchor for the TV talk-show "Ultimul cuvânt" (The Last Word) for the Romanian private TV stationB1 TV.
Controversies
[edit]Cristoiu is considered by some as a controversial figure in the Romanian public due to his alleged involvement as informant of theSecuritate(Communist Romania's secret police). These allegations were never proven. Romanian SenatorCorneliu Vadim Tudorin 2008 alleged publicly that Cristoiu "was more than the caster, he was a source". The senator declared that Cristoiu snitched on him to the Securitate under the code name "Coroiu". Vadim said that this results from a tab of his Securitate file at the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives.[4][5]Cristoiu is not on that list, so he doesn't have an index number as a collaborator.
Mădălin Hodor,a Romanian historian and researcher, gave an interview to the Newsweek Romania magazine in 2018, in which he spoke about the fact that the journalist is mentioned in documents from the archives of the former Securitate, as the "Coroiu" source.[4]But Cristoiu won the case in court.
According to The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Ion Cristoiu appears in the database both in the index of collaborators, in theForeign Intelligence Service(SIE) file 41448, and in the Index of follow-ups, twice, as a writer, with a conspiratorial name TO "Coroiu", 1987, and as deputy editor-in-chief ofScânteia Tineretului,for the attention of SMB (Bucharest City Securitate), 1983, 1984[5]This is a list that can be updated, and Cristoiu is not on that list now.
The historianMarius Opreaconfirmed the authenticity of the list published inRevista 22,but drew attention to the fact that the respective document represented a simple work list of the Securitate, which means that not all those who appear there were actually collaborators.[6]The documents were never made public.
References
[edit]- ^"Ion Cristoiu: Iohannis a impus o atitudine de ură față de Biserică pentru a câștiga din electoratul USRPLUS"(in Romanian).Mediafax.Retrieved2024-01-11.
- ^abPatrick H. O'Neil,Post-communism and the media in Eastern Europe,Routledge,1997,ISBN0-7146-4765-9,p. 109
- ^(in French)Nicolas Pelissier,La Presse à Sensation en Roumanie: Miroir de la Décomposition Sociale ou Acteur de la Récomposition Économique?inLe nouveau paysage médiatique à l'Est,Volumes 32-33 ofL'Autre Europe,Éditions L'Âge d'Homme,1996,ISBN2-8251-0638-0,p. 163
- ^ab"Cristoiu a pierdut definitiv procesul cu istoricul Hodor, în scandalul" Coroiu "al Securității".Newsweek Romania(in Romanian). 30 November 2019.Retrieved2021-01-18.
- ^ab"Relația cu Securitatea a lui Ion Cristoiu – nume conspirativ" Coroiu "".Newsweek Romania(in Romanian). 8 March 2019.Retrieved2021-01-18.
- ^Pătrașcu, Sorana (2018-04-15)."Istoricul Marius Oprea intervine în scandalul Ioan Aurel Pop:" Revista 22 NU a demonstrat a fost omul Securității! "".Evenimentul Zilei(in Romanian).Retrieved2021-01-18.
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