Let me start this article with a quote from Marco Travaglio taken from his book "The disappearance of the facts" (which I highly recommend reading).
"If American journalism is the watchdog of power in Italy is the pet dog. O retriever."
Unfortunately in our country is more information, or journalism is becoming more powerful son of the guy. They are less and less careful observers as it was Indro Montanelli, a writer of singular intellectual integrity and great expressiveness. Missing in our country editors who do not have cards, who love truth and justice, there are people above the party.
The first duty of every journalist should be to take a critical look civil society and report real events without regard to party. Not to mention that Italian television is the most common means of communication and assist in daily programs that are copied to each other thus making the wealth of information more and more miserable. Just look at the television broadcasts of the first and second night to realize as well as political information is handled and given a very personalized leadership.
But luckily there is now "Information Democracy" which is a historic revolution almost equal to that of the print, where anyone can make their voices heard and often the content coming from below are more reliable than television or appearing all day in the newspapers. Already in the United States the power to address some bloggers is almost equal to that of a newspaper. Precisely for this reason they are very confident in looking to the network as a medium that can contribute to changing social, cultural and communicative.
"If American journalism is the watchdog of power in Italy is the pet dog. O retriever."
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