Perugia - The International Festival of Journalism it comes to information, new media, talking about the future of newspapers, and also new technologies of the future and prospects of new journalists.
Alessandro Campi, scientific director of the Foundation Farefuturo, was a guest of the festival. He is here to talk about the "political-media circus." So with him we talked about the relationship between politics and information.
Dr. Fields, many journalists now speak of "gag around information. Experience a limitation of their independence and autonomy, given also the various laws, such as the one under discussion in Parliament on the interception, which intrude into the system of free information. She has that opinion about it?
A free and independent press is a safeguard of democracy, and its level is also measured through the system of free, independent and autonomous. The policy is wrong to want to influence, too much to want to influence the system. If you think you put the gags, makes a very big mistake, but that everyone must assume its responsibilities. There are those of politics and those of information. This should be more jealous of its independence. We have a journalism that, for historical reasons, it is too vicino al potere. La politica fa pressione sul mondo della carta stampata, sul mondo delle televisioni, sull’informazione in generale, ma anche i giornalisti spesso e volentieri si comportano, agiscono, pensano in chiave politica. Il problema è reciproco, bisogna guardare entrambi gli aspetti, perchè in Italia c’è una patologia sul versante dell’informazione che non dipende solo dalla politica, ma anche dallo stesso mondo del giornalismo.
Quindi i giornalisti dovrebbero usare la loro indipendenza senza ostacolare la politica e senza intromettersi?
Chi fa il giornalista dovrebbe fare quello e non dare l’impressione di essere un partigiano, uno che prende campo a favore di una posizione o di un’altra. Unfortunately it often happens that journalists behave as if they were spokesmen of some political group, they lend themselves readily to have an overly incestuous relationship with the world of politics. It is a physiological trend that belongs to the political world that want to control or influence the information. We see this in all countries and we complain Italy. Political leaders, even the most democratic in the world are allergic to criticism, we must come to terms.
And what is the solution to this "clash physiological?
The solution lies in people. I am convinced that the difference is the individual man, who is a journalist should have a frame of mind and character. It should have a sense of their profession other than that which often occurs. The autonomy and independence are not something that is given from above, but who wins. This does not mean that as a journalist should not have ideas or should not be manifest. I'm saying something different. The great journalists are such because they have strong opinions to rely on. But it is their opinion, not the party you belong to or to which political party you host.
not believe that this physiological relationship between politics and information, and in other states as demonstrated by the political debate, with statements, though very strong, Italy is more to do with development assistance legislative effort to curb and gag that affect the power?
Sarkozy in France has not only made very strong statements, but also removed newspaper editors, has done away journalists. Obama himself has had an attitude towards the press in recent times, particularly vindictive, especially towards the network that in his opinion were too flat on the Republican front. One scenario that we find in many countries: the policy that tends to influence and control the information. We know it and we have to deal with this reality. Then of course there is today in Italy the legislative measure that would, if approved, put some sort of gag to information. Cioè quello sulle intercettazioni.
Se un errore è mettere il bavaglio, bisogna capire, al tempo stesso, se per caso non si sia sbagliato qualcosa nel sistema dell’informazione, facendo un uso dell’intercettazioni forse improprio. C’è stato un certo giornalismo di inchiesta che in realtà ha avuto ed ha una caratterizzazione politica e che non si è mai posto problemi di natura deontologica rispetto all’uso delle intercettazioni. Ha pensato che potessero essere usate in chiava scandalistica, senza fare verifiche, controlli, senza preoccuparsi se si stesse violando la privacy delle persone, senza calcolare bene gli effetti dirompenti che possono avere le intercettazioni, come ad esempio il mettere in piazza dei behavior that until proven otherwise, do not constitute a criminal offense. Once again we must ensure that the policy is not exaggerating in his claims, but we also need the system to make an examination of information on themselves and on their behavior.
These days will start the initiative "Do not kiss your hands," the publisher Rubbettino Calabrese, an initiative against the Mafia. What do you think of publishers who publish against the crime syndicates?
I think very well, are from Calabria and assistant editor Rubbettino several years, I appreciate his commitment to anti-mafia and I can only welcome this initiative and editorials, which are not only Rubbettino. Per fortuna c’ è attenzione grande su questi temi. Anche da parte di grandi editori. Non dimentichiamo che il libro di Saviano, Gomorra, è stato pubblicato da Mondadori. Fortunatamente l’editoria è molto attenta a questa questione.
di Nicola Lillo
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