5.19.2012

how far can we go to make a news more interesting?

In the days of the trial to the heads of "News of the World" today in Italy most of the big newspapers and of the news agencies have forgot the deontological code the italian journalism has and the documents the Ordine dei Giornalisti signed in 1990:
 "I giornalisti devono evitare di pubblicare qualsiasi elemento che possa portare ad identificare un minore coinvolto in procedimenti giudiziari, sia esso un dato (generalità dei genitori, indirizzo di casa, scuola, ecc.) sia esso una fotografia o un filmato."
It's one of worst days ever in our history: a bomb was placed this morning in front of a school, named after "Francesca Laura Morvillo Falcone", and killed one 16 years old girl and injured several others in Brindisi.
But that's not an excuse to forget how to write an article and the school kids they're writing about are minors.

5.07.2012

Am I sure that's the Italy I want?

While the spread is running up again, all Europe is voting against the government and the parties they had, my country is talking about a sport club, the Juventus, 'cause it won the campionship..
We had yesterday and today the elections in many city and towns all around the boot, but if you open your facebook account what you can see is posts about soccer.. thought some newspaper  speaks about what happend in our elections where finally the incoherent PDL has disappeared and the populist movement gained a lot of votes not only in the exit pools, i haven't seen a real analysis of what's happeing in our country..
the really sad thing is that the sum of the people who voted is down of 7%point compared to the last administration's elections, the invented party Lega Nord, no matter the scandals of this days it went through, in some little villages has still won the elections or enough votes to go to the second ballot.
While Europe in going towards the extremist parties facing a crisis that's not going to be solved with austerity and more taxes on the poor and middle class, italians have to fight corruption and an old mentality which see the individual's profits as the only aim of commerce and politics.