There’s really not much more to say here then to quote the lead from this story: “Last week, the Romanian Senate unanimously voted a law proposal forcing media to distribute 50% of positive news. According to its instigators [sic], the law will help to fight against ‘the extraordinary harms of negative news and their irreversible effects on health and people’s lives.'” Check out the rest of this creepy story here, originally reported by Le Monde.

An interesting (and disturbing) side issue to consider is the challenge of media control and media ties to politicians in many of the former Warsaw Pact countries, a trend we’ve reported on for years in assessments in both Romania and Bulgaria.