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"Criticism of the government outweighs positive coverage"/ Rama, reaction to Reporters Without Borders

2026-05-26 11:52:00, Politikë CNA

"Criticism of the government outweighs positive coverage"/ Rama,

Prime Minister Edi Rama has made a response to Reporters Without Borders regarding the issue of media freedom in Albania.

Rama states that today Albania takes an important step on its path towards EU membership, while emphasizing that an essential part of this process is working with the media environment.

While sharing a report on a 120-day monitoring period, covering 106,962 articles in 47 monitored media outlets, the prime minister says this weakens the thesis of a "captured" media environment.

Among other things, it is stated that in this analysis, the opposition's share of the voice reaches 68.2%, while the government's visibility stands at 31.8%. The head of government writes that criticism of the government exceeds positive coverage by almost five times.

Full post:

Dear @RSF_inter,

I am heading to Brussels, where today Albania will take another important step on its path towards membership in the European Union. An essential part of this journey is, of course, both the progress achieved and the work that remains to be done regarding the media environment. And we will do this in full cooperation with the EU.

But, since I haven't heard from you since sharing the highly significant report generated through an artificial intelligence model, developed by an Albanian start-up, I thought it might be useful to send you the findings of a follow-up analysis from the same source, this time with an extended monitoring period of 120 days, covering 106,962 articles in 47 monitored media outlets.

I hope you enjoy learning that, as for the well-known thesis of a "captured" media environment, the larger the sample becomes, the weaker this thesis appears.

Just imagine: empirical indicators place Albania 33 percentage points below the threshold associated with structurally captured media systems.

Incredible, right?

But true.

The opposition's share of the vote reaches 68.2%, while the government's visibility stands at 31.8%. Most strikingly, even within media outlets that are usually labeled as pro-government, the opposition's visibility remains higher than the government's visibility itself.

Moreover, criticism of the government exceeds positive coverage by almost five times.

This is hardly the profile of a country where criticism is silenced, opposition voices are marginalized, or media pluralism is merely decorative.

Again, in a truly “captured” media environment, none of this would exist.

Not a landscape where the visibility of the opposition dominates even in supposedly pro-government media.

Not criticism that outweighs positive coverage of the government by almost five times.

Not opposition voices that consistently dominate the categories of critical, balanced, and pro-government media alike.

And again, these are not perceptions.

These are measurable facts, extracted from a database of more than 106,000 published articles.

The larger the sample, the harder it becomes to reconcile these findings with the idea of ??a media landscape captured by government influence.

I trust you will enjoy reading the attached report.

I will gladly return with other findings in the future, in the spirit of mutual respect, constructive cooperation, and our shared commitment to that often elusive, but always worthwhile destination:

Of Truth.

You are free to click below:

https://report.buletin.al/sq/ /CNA