Is the mass-media guilty for so many English loanwords in Romanian?

Abstract Words like fake news, like, face to face, feeling, start-up, take away, hairstylist, low cost and others are among the 3,600 new entries in the Romanian language dictionary (DOOM3) published in 2022. Most of the borrowings can be found in technical language, while others are used in media language or in colloquial language. It is discussed whether the anglicisms in lexicographical works nowadays. While the head of the editorial team speaks of linguistic enrichment (Mortu 2023), other researchers (including Popescu, Iordan, Florescu and others) see the many new anglicisms more as language impoverishment and even language decline. Based on the example of the Romanian language, various aspects are discussed, including the frequency of newly recorded words. The article focuses on the proposed changes in the new lexicographical work in order to answer the question of what role foreign words play in language and if mass-media is an accelerator for this linguistic and social development.