“With view on TV and reading i newspapers When we talked about the war in Ukraine, we realized that something is not workingthat something is moving pretty badly. This began the public appeal by ten historians war correspondent of the major national newspapers (Corriere, Ansa, Tg5, Repubblica, Panorama, Sole 24 Ore) who are sounding the alarm about the risks of a employed narrative and hypersimple of the conflict in the Italian media (Here is the full text on the online newspaper Africa ExPress). “We really saw the war from the inside: we were bombed, some of our colleagues and friends died,” begin Massimo Alberizzi, Remigio Benni, Toni Capuozzo, Renzo Cianfanelli, Cristiano Laruffa, Alberto Negri, Giovanni Porzio, Claudia Svampa, Vanna Vannuccini and Angela Virdo. “For this very reason they explain we don’t like how the conflict in Ukraine is presented today, the first wideranging oneEra Advanced Web. We are inundated with news, but in the media portrayal, the belligerents are uncritically divided into good and evil. on the other hand very good and very bad‘ the signers note. “Only one will be credited dominant thinking and anyone who doesn’t think so is branded a friend of Putin’s and thus, to a certain extent, jointly responsible for the massacres in Ukraine. But it’s not like that. We must recognize that war is moving unspeakable interests that disclosure to the public is avoided. Propaganda has only one victim: journalism.
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“Public Opinion Pushed for Armament Race” The envoys, as is now mandatory, specify what is even superfluous: “No one here claims that Vladimir Putin is a gentle lamb. He’s the one who started the war and brutally invaded Ukraine. He is the one who fired missiles that caused pain and death. Naturally. But we must ask ourselves: is he solely responsible? We are in solidarity with Ukraine and its people, but ask us why and how this war started. We cannot hastily dismiss the reasons with one Putin’s supposed madness“. While, they note, “in most media (especially the largest and most widespread) there is no indepth analysis of what is happening and, importantly, why it happened”. The same media that “continue to offer us poignant stories of pain and death which deeply touch and prepare public opinion very dangerous rearmament race. As for Italy, an increase in military spending to 2 percent of GDP. An investment of this magnitude in military costs will inevitably lead to a reduction in spending intended for the wellbeing of the population. The state of war, they conclude, seems to have caused us to abandon the principles of tolerance that should characterize liberal democratic societies like ours.
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Alberizzi: “This is no longer information, this is propaganda” Words of absolute common sense, but which in the current climate could be seen as strongly extremist. “Since I think so, give me a friend of Putin’s,” he tells fattoquotidiano.it Massimo Alberizzi, correspondent for Corriere from Africa for over twenty years. “But I don’t care about Putin: as a journalist, I worry about this war it destroys journalism. In 1993 I told about the battle for the noodle factory in Mogadishu, in which three Italian soldiers were killed in action by Somali militias: the next day I went to talk to these militias and I wondered why, what they were achieving wanted to. And the Corriere published this interview. It would be impossible today“. The portrayal of the conflict in the Italian media, he argues, is based on “unilateral information provided by sources considered “essential” Nevertheless. The most striking example is the Russian attack on the Mariupol Theater, in which the unverified tale of a slaughter struck public opinion in the stomach and steered it toward uncritical support for rearmament. this it is no longer information, it is propaganda. Facts are overwhelmed by a chorus of opinions, and even those who read several newspapers a day for information cannot understand anything.
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Negri: “Making a show is more interesting than informing” “This war is an opportunity for many young journalists to make themselves known and some of them are producing really exceptional materials‘ he squeezed instead Albert Negri, the Sun’s thirtyyearold correspondent from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Balkans. “Then there are the commentators sitting on the sofa, judging all human knowledge and they don’t help to understand anything, but they only confuse the water. I feel sorry for them. On the other hand, most media outlets are much more interested in making a show than informing. He agrees Tony Capuozzo, iconic face of Tg5, former deputy director and war correspondent among others in Somalia, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan: “The influence of talk show politics was shameful,” he tells fattoquotidiano.it. “The conversations follow you binary logic: either yes or no. Gray areas, doubts, shades are boring. When telling wars this logic is harmful. If we ask ourselves the trivial and brutal question “Who is right?, the answer is simple: Putin is the aggressor, Ukraine is under attack. But once that inevitable answer is given, it would be useful to discuss how we got here: there could be a thousand more much less obvious problemsupon which intelligence should be exercised”.
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Capuozzo: “Doubts are precious in war” “It seems that to raise doubts means to abandon the Ukrainians to the massacre, to be traitor, cowards or deserters, argues Capuozzo. “Instead, under these very circumstances, that’s what it is Doubts are precious and very dangerous unanimity. I believe that this way of dealing with the subject is mainly due to the lack of knowledge about what war is: war mud splashes everywhere and no one remains innocent except the children. And every war is a crime in itself, as evidenced by Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan crime summaries from all sides.” Of course there are media needs: “It is obvious that you cannot make a news program with unanswered questions alone. But there’s a minimum wage of honesty with viewers: knowing that in war Everyone is propaganda on your side and make it clear. In such situations it is very difficult to stick to the facts because the facts are almost never clear. So what wins are sympathies and ideological interpretations. A trend that also eliminates all nuances in the political debate: “My feeling is that a ruling class whose months are numbered has seized the opportunity draw attention in the fateful hour, tries to hide his own inadequacy. Hearing the word ‘heroism’ in Draghi’s mouth is disconcerting, it has nothing to do with the character, he says. “We became all fans from one side or the other, while we should only be supporters of peace.