Un jurnalist american despre România: What's surprising to an outsider like me is how widely and in how much detail all this corruption (and more) are known. This was certainly somewhat a function of my milieu, which trended seriously toward young urban professionals or cultural figures sympathetic to the Liberal Party. But it's also a measure of the deep and perhaps decisive urban/rural split in the country, which is more pronounced than any country I've witnessed, with the possible exception of Milosevic's rump Yugoslavia. In Bucharest and the other large cities, there is no shortage of critical newspapers, muckraking revelations, national and international television news, student populations, and what one diplomat called "the most youth-obsessed culture I've ever seen."