Rama publishes analysis for the media from Brussels: The opposition dominates the media space
2026-05-26 11:23:24
TiranaPost
Rama travels to Brussels, responds to RSF with an extensive analysis on the media in Albania
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama published this Tuesday on the social network X a reaction to the organization Reporters Without Borders, highlighting the results of a new analysis on the state of the media environment in the country.
Rama announces that he is in Brussels, where according to him, Albania is taking another important step on the path towards membership in the European Union. He adds that an essential part of this process is also the improvement of the media environment, in cooperation with the European Union.
In the post, the Prime Minister says that after sharing a previous report generated by an artificial intelligence model developed by an Albanian startup, he did not receive a response from RSF, so he decided to publish new findings from an expanded analysis.
According to him, this analysis includes a monitoring period of 120 days, with 106,962 articles analyzed from 47 monitored media outlets.
Rama points out that, according to this data, the thesis of a “captured media” becomes weaker the larger the sample of analysis. He adds that empirical indicators place Albania 33 percentage points below the threshold associated with structurally captured media systems.
Following the post, he states that the opposition's "Share of Voice" reaches 68.2%, while the government's is 31.8%. According to him, even in media considered pro-government, the opposition is more present than the government itself.
Rama also writes that criticism of the government outweighs positive coverage by a ratio of almost five to one.
He adds that this data, according to him, does not correspond to a situation where criticism is silenced or where media pluralism is limited, emphasizing that it is about "measurable facts" drawn from over 106 thousand articles.
At the end of his reaction, the Prime Minister states that the larger the data sample, the more difficult it becomes, according to him, to support the thesis of a captured media, adding that he will publish other findings in the future.
