Journalism is in the service of citizens?-Perugia journalism festival Calafati Professor, Professor of Urban Economics, University of the Marche, has conducted research with his students on how the Italian press has covered the topic TAV in Val Susa, in particular comparing La Stampa, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera. The conclusion of this review is that it is incredibly overlooked a key component to the complete picture of the facts: the reasons why economic actors to take a choice that affected the lives of population and environment.
front of a stack of newspapers front pages of British tabloids for the most part, the BBC's Nicholas Jones entertains the public information revealing some flaws: the focus on superficial elements that ultimately play an important role, are forged at the expense of real information. Lively Jones explains what the real value, and not only symbolic, has had the word "sorry" in dealing with the manner in which politicians announcing the crisis. That is how important it was that, despite their shortcomings, they then ask your pardon. There are examples where they built a story around the fact that a sentence uttered by a certain personality contained the fateful words, without being told with the intention that they wanted to believe. But he said - seems to say the news - and that's all that matters. No more the fact that the crisis has been reported or not, in fact of most interest to the national player.
echoes Sergio Rizzo, the Courier: "if we had snarled a bit 'more .. Italy would be a better world."
Calafati It relies on the quality option, which works elsewhere: where newspapers are concerned about maintaining a high level, namely in Germany, France and Britain, sales have not been a dramatic collapse, because they continue to serve as a "guest" who always buy the newspaper because the newspaper is a service. But as we go the way of quality? " In the knowledge society exists as a Science Journalism, you must create an environment of interaction to the search for truth."
Sassoli protest, perhaps in his school to teach critical skills such as garbage on TV and paper, and if it should rather teach in a school for chefs, I teach Fast food restaurants and bars of chocolate and caramel, since according to him "even when the policy advertising is, in information, is interesting, because it serves to develop the critical sense, because you feel compelled to understand. " His theory is belied by the fact that a herd of Boccalon the government we voted in office.
Necessarily, however, it is unthinkable that we should keep in mind the public in the process of packing of the journalistic product, given the state of public television, where public and private sectors are intersecting in this way does not understand anything. Certainly this situation is not good for the quality of work. Lacks an idea pedagogical journalism.
missing value in use, replication Calafati.
So the question is whether the rules of journalism are aged. According to Rizzo is a problem of people, those who run the newspapers, the real culprits of the righteousness of a newspaper, because they keep your back straight to him and the people who work around him. But this is just an Italian problem, which followed a more basic question: an idea of \u200b\u200bthe press, and to do audience, other than that which exists in the UK. And this difference can be read well in the online versions of newspapers, which seem in some cases to understand the network as a place where you can forget the rules of good journalism. It is certain The network represents a revolution in printing. A challenge. Okay Sassoli: it is a chance to meet with other points of view, in their coexistence. Indeed Calafati admits that journalism should be redefined, since it is only in more traditional places.
For example, Rizzo says, it must return to the field, which should be obvious, but it is not unlike that in the newspapers we read today. Jones: The newspaper industry needs to be reinvented.
