The campaign in some newspapers an TV stations started years before the 2004 in order to convince the public that Gregorian Bivolaru is already "guilty as charge".
The virulence of the press campaign attained its climax in March 2004. Basically, most media tried to turn the population against MISA yoga students and trigger a “witch-hunt”.
Articles regarding the case in the international media
TV capture videoclips
Internet manipulative campaingnsMass media campaign >>> Campaign starting with 18 March 2004 >>> TV survey March 2004 – October 2005
During MARCH - APRIL 2004, the OTV, National and Prima TV stations were partial monitored => the total amount of the news during this period is larger.
Generally, the Pro TV, Antena 1, TVR TV stations broadcasted (most of the times) the same news 2 or even 3 times in one single day, and other TV stations, broadcasted certain news every hour (Realitatea, OTV, Antena 3) or even every 30 minutes (N 24) and therefore, actually, the general total amount is much larger.
The 10 objective talkshows (OTS) were broadcasted by two TV stations: OTV - 9 and Prima - 1 (this actually was an interview with Ulla Sandbaek,
member of the European Parliament).
In 2004, a few "almost" neutral news were broadcasted - they referred to the street demonstrations organized by MISA, however these news were also presented with some malicious or even slanderous comments.
All the 9 (!!!) objective news from 2005 were broadcasted starting with the second half of April 2005, namely after GRIEG submitted the request for being granted the political asylum!
Read here a list of topics from TV news and shows regarding MISA and Gregorian Bivolaru (March 2004 - October 2005) and a detailed presentation of the TV news content from the same period.
TV Talk shows statistic
| REALITATEA TV | B1 TV | PRIMA TV | NATIONAL | OTV | TOTAL GENERAL | |
| MAR 2004 | 8 TS | 2 TS | ||||
| MAY 2004 | 8 TS | 1 OTS | 3 TS | |||
| MAY 2005 | 9 OTS | |||||
| TOTAL | 16 TS | 2 TS | 1 OTS | 3 TS | 9 OTS | 21 TS+10 OTS |
TV News statistic
| PRO TV | ANT. 1 | ANT. 3 | TVR 1 | REALIT. TV | B1 TV | PRIMA TV | NATIONAL | N 24 | OTV | TOTAL | |
| MAR 2004 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 87 |
| APR 2004 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
| MAY 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| JUN 2004 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| JUL 2004 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| AUG 2004 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 |
| SEP 2004 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 38 |
| OCT 2004 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 70 |
| NOV 2004 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 52 |
| DEC 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| JAN 2005 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| FEB 2005 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| MAR 2005 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| APR 2005 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 43 |
| MAY 2005 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 32 |
| JUN 2005 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| JUL 2005 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| AUG 2005 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| SEP 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| OCT 2005 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 46 |
| TOTAL | 109 | 99 | 11 | 56 | 125 | 40 | 48 | 49 | 6 | 32 | 575 |