 After 1989, Octavian Paler received public appreciation for his journalistic work and political activism and was appointed as the chief editor of "România Liberă".He has also published with "Cotidianul" and "Ziua", and has made appearances on public TV discussing politics and morality.Octavian Paler came in 93rd in a poll conducted by Romanian Television to find the "greatest Romanians of all time" in 2006.