Tag Archive for 'information'
P3, mud and blackmail, but freedom is stronger than fear
While Berlusconi speaks of "slander" and "furious campaigns" against the government, there is actually a method in the work of the so-called P3, which came to light with clarity is made of private affairs related to public control of state institutions used for personal, privileged relations around powerful men (Denis Verdini, Marcello Dell'Utri) of enlisted influential people to press on strong personality - especially in justice - and finally fixers slender hand and ready for anything, even be marked by the premier as "retired nerds" when the network is discovered. But to succeed, this method needs something more: blacken, delegitimize and destroy.
Calabria Now, the preparation purified anti-'ndrangheta
Eight journalists on the street with their manager. All until a few days ago worked for "Calabria Ora" courageous newspaper of Reggio Calabria in recent weeks has raised the bar of his investigations going to touch that twilight world where politics and the 'Ndrangheta touch dangerously. Editor's choice comes after great investigation last month and between the folds of which emerged the meetings of the governor of Calabria Giuseppe Scopelliti and some bosses of the thighs. The decision to publish these reports claimed the chair to director Paul Pollichieni.
Weapons and toxic waste: Ilaria Alpi, the martyrdom of truth
Gone quietly after a long illness courageously faced and silent, taking with them the love of Luciana and last smile of hilarity. Do not forget George Alps, pain, dignity, pride that he instilled in 16 interminable years to honor the daughter of one day playing for Somalia and never returned. Sixteen years covered by Giorgio and Luciana, always together, shoulder to shoulder, for full light on that ambush on the streets of Mogadishu that snuffed out the life of Ilaria and Miran Hrovatin, killed while preparing to spread the truth gained by TG3 their work of reporters.
Article 21: they want to hunt mines RaiNews
Via the Director of Rainews Corradino Mineo, in its place outside the Rai with the merit of pleasure to the Northern League. They do know the spokesman of "Article 21" and Senator Joseph Giulietti Pd Vincenzo Vita, two connoisseurs of affairs Rai: "Other than seeking dialogue. In the next few hours gagged, and their delegates to the RAI will try to get their hands on even the director Rainews away Corradino Mineo, mortifying the demands of writing and even putting in place a pleasing exterior to the League. "
Italy in silence the press, against the indecency of the gag
Italy silent press against the gag-law, the bill Alfano on interceptions that would limit judicial inquiries and would silence the media . Newspapers, radio and television on strike, to make possible "loud" and "owned" the "Day of Silence" organized by FNSI satisfied with the accession of the Order of Journalists, against the law "threatens to silence the whole system of ' information Italian "and against the cuts" maneuver "Tremonti publishing. Regularly in newspapers, instead, the newspaper directed by Victor Felts, also against the law-gag.
Italian press, caste hypocritical Information
We take advantage of the occasion. For once let's just not a dignified protest Resistance. For once we speak to us of operators' information and try to understand what our limitations, our faults, our many gray areas. Starting from a given absolutely indisputable: the Italian information system is in crisis and not just an economic crisis. We are breathless, crushed by ourselves, by our need to survive as a privileged category. A closed group, in its continuity ensured by a residual order of a narrow concept of freedom of expression and access to the profession. Unique case in so-called Western democracies.
The newspapers do not inform, readers always strike
The Prime Minister is an incurable optimist when it deems invite readers to strike against the newspapers that misinform. In Italy, indeed, a crisis or not, readers are on strike against the newspaper after the war. The percentage of buyers of newspapers see Italy behind India, civilized country if ever. Investigate the cause of this is difficult, but also simple. Newspapers in Italy are not written to inform readers. Are written only because the political or economic power can exchange messages of peace or war, or truce, and concluding some business in the shadow of a good editorial or an investigation.
Freedom web alert U.S.: a law to obscure Internet
President Obama will be given the power to turn off the Internet for at least four months without any control of Congress if the Senate approves the infamous bill on 'switch killer "of the Internet, which was approved yesterday by a key Senate committee and Now go to the plenary. The law of protection of cyberspace as a strategic national resource, which is pushed strongly by Senator Joe Lieberman, would give absolute power in the hands of the federal government uses to close the network and block all incoming traffic to the Internet by some countries as part of a declared national emergency.
Mentana La7 to the National Information TV
"Now that the blues without Balotelli, Totti, Cassano and Marco Materazzi were eliminated (perhaps because of greetings received at the last minute by Umberto Bossi), we can deal with another team grew in these years, without attracting attention too, appartatezza and modestly, while the other gufavano betting on the failure of the third prong Italian television. " So Gad Lerner greets the arrival of Enrico Mentana driving the Tg La7 utmost expression of a team that 'the field of news and deepening journalism, "row" between their different personalities, different political and cultural locations, different tone language but a common feature: in the news La7 damage. All. Including those not given elsewhere. "
Gag-law: fear of the people and freedom
"Only a fearful power could decide to protect himself with a law that hinders the freedom of the investigations against crime, reduce press freedom and restricts in particular the right of citizens to be informed." Ezio Mauro, editor of "Republic", reaffirms the mission of the campaign that brought together the major Italian newspapers against the anti-wiretapping that the government is preparing to validate a vote "armored" after the improvements demanded by Finian . Adjustments but not enough, according to Italian press, ensuring the democratic right to ' information .
Without the online Labor seeking help for bloggers
So there we are. The everyday occurrence a few weeks is finally online. At this time our engineers and our reporters are working to fix the date of the final exit site in Beta. Then, throughout the summer we'll see how things work, listen to the suggestions we receive from the network, and by autumn we will launch the final version. We have many ideas. The main ones are still two. The first is to do on the web information without bosses and complaints. The second: create a site that can accommodate the views and thoughts of all, selecting what we will be sent or find on the Net
Lerner: My debt to Walter Tobagi
Yesterday I attended the commemoration of Walter Tobagi the Corriere della Sera, thirty years after his murder. There was among us a happy custom became friendship. Since 1977 I consulted on the events of the movement, was sympathetic to the dramatic cultural battle that led to Continue Fight against armed party, and so was among those that made me choose to become a journalist, showing the best face of this profession. How many meals I have cadge, to time when I was poor in
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