Could be the story of a Holywood movie !

It would be a nice read, if it was not true. The whole rise to power of this mobster is a vivid example about media's decisive role in mass misinformation and heroic portrayal of a common criminal.

No idea what you mean with "system" has caught up, but the most recent elections were the most flawed since the fall of the communism. The media misinformation was so radical, that it left no chance for any truth to come to life. I see no point in your words "In time the voters will also learn how to take on responsibility for themselves instead of blaming the media", since the voters were mainly ignored. The media is to blame, as it was in the time of the communist rule, as it achieved the same - total coverage and overexposure of the "achievements" of the government. The paid vote of the gypsies complemented that, and the especial slow proceedings at the voting points made it even more difficult for the normal people.
I can't presume responsibility for the vote of others than me, and no change can be made, except investigating a monopoly over nation's major media, but that's not my area of expertise again.
A much quicker solution would be to make an IQ test for voters and deny voting right for the ones, who are stupid enough to believe what the news tell them, but that seems unacceptable in a "democratic" society.

it not about blaming media... media is a tool like a gun or cannon , but much more powerful


 who controls it and toward what ends is the question

Correct me if I am wrong but I understand that Bulgarians have unrestricted access to the internet. If things are getting so bad, what about a "Bulgarian Spring"?

Nobody restricts free speech formally. Guess what happens fe facto:

In the morning of Thursday, 10 February, around 5 a.m., a bomb exploded in front of the building of the editorial office of Galeria newspaper in Sofia. ... In the last weeks the newspaper revealed series of wiretapped conversations between the PM Boiko Borissov, the financial minister Simeon Djankov and the director on the customs agency Vanio Tanov Those conversations are the hottest topic in the Bulgarian media recently.



http://www.aej-bulgaria.org/en/2011/02/the-bomb-in-galeria%E2%80%99s-headquarters-%E2%80%93-facts-and-reactions/

Two Bulgarian journalists have been targeted in a series of worrying attacks.
A bomb blast destroyed a car belonging to TV host Sasho Dikov, the director of private television channel Kanal 3, outside his home in Sofia. It appeared to be a murder attempt.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/oct/24/bulgaria-press-freedom
 

The good news: Due to the reputation of corruption, inefficiency and pathetic economic performance Bulgaria has not been blessed with massive loans from the EU. As a result they are not expected to suffer the kind of problems that Greece, Italy and many other EU nations are dealing with.

Correct. Pensions in Greece, larger than EUR2000, will be reduced by 20% as a result of the "drastic" cuts. My grandmother gets EUR50 per month. Where's the good news?

This is a photography website?

Indeed. In short - in a massive media coverage and misinformation (90% of the media being owned by one man, formally an opponent, but de facto a strong supporter), the close-to-fascist party of the mobster Borisov falsified the elections, and pressurizes the inconvenient. The latest rumors (rather unpublicized witness testimonies etc.) are that the Police, tax administration and court will be used to force a lot of businesses into bankruptcy, clearing the field for the "friends" and acquiring a lot of property under market value.

it is no different in america , where a creeping fascism  and a long slow dive towards third world citizen status and crap currency  is agenda driven and never mentioned in the media
daddy bush [ not the gay one ] was candid and quite serious when he said:

“If the American people really knew what we had done, we would be chased down the street and lynched.” — President George H.W.Bush to White House correspondent Sara McClendon, 1992


at least in bulgaria  the courts can expose this corruption an bring the participants to justice, the criminal political class in america is completely safe from that , when political sacrifices an the american altar do occur it is more likely a purge or a punishment for not playing by the  corporatocracies   ....er....."rules"