Ask questions and expect a politician to answer exhaustively is normal practice of independent journalism in all the world except Italy. Obviously, the politician could refuse to answer, but in other countries of the world this would be unacceptable in the eyes of his own voters. A politician who doesn't answer questions appear to be a person with something to hide.
Our Prime Minister has a private life a little different from the one presented to Italians in election campaigns, and of this he should respond to his voters. But in Italy, while the whole world talks about it, television and newspapers friend to the government try to ignore the issue. Other newspapers instead speak, and the premier don't like that. So a he files a lawsuit against a newspaper because asked questions and reported the news of foreign sites.
But the most interesting thing in all this is what the newspaper that belongs to the brother of the premier does. It publish an article that quotes an indictment against the editor of L'Avvenire, the catholic bishops' newspaper guilty of criticizing Berlusconi about his scandals and the laws on immigration, for telephone harassment. In the meantime also compares Berlusconi to Jesus Christ, because both have been crucified for "rumors" against them. This is the style of the media assault in the newspapers of our premier, who then, as he did recently when his newspaper had published allegations about opposition politicians Cesa and D'Alema, intervene to say that his faithful servants have gone too far and the privacy of everyone must be respected. The theater was started to achieve exactly this. Only that the privacy of a newspaper editor has a public interest much lower than that of a prime minister, especially when the prime minister's private life is quite different from the public one that he promoted to get elected.
But the most interesting thing in all this is what the newspaper that belongs to the brother of the premier does. It publish an article that quotes an indictment against the editor of L'Avvenire, the catholic bishops' newspaper guilty of criticizing Berlusconi about his scandals and the laws on immigration, for telephone harassment. In the meantime also compares Berlusconi to Jesus Christ, because both have been crucified for "rumors" against them. This is the style of the media assault in the newspapers of our premier, who then, as he did recently when his newspaper had published allegations about opposition politicians Cesa and D'Alema, intervene to say that his faithful servants have gone too far and the privacy of everyone must be respected. The theater was started to achieve exactly this. Only that the privacy of a newspaper editor has a public interest much lower than that of a prime minister, especially when the prime minister's private life is quite different from the public one that he promoted to get elected.
Indeed, the international newspapers closely followed the events of Berlusconi, while those of private persons unknown abroad obviously do not raise the slightest interest in them. But the "scoops" of the family newspaper are only made for internal use, with the final sum that must get to the point "I'm not a saint, but neither are the others".
Like children caught committing a prank that to deflect their parents reproach say that their brother / cousin / friend has done something too. But in these cases the parent who is not completely fool understands it's just a way to distract him. Italian voters instead always swallow the bait. Probably because in general children don't have 5 television stations and several newspapers to repeat forever an unlikely excuse.
Like children caught committing a prank that to deflect their parents reproach say that their brother / cousin / friend has done something too. But in these cases the parent who is not completely fool understands it's just a way to distract him. Italian voters instead always swallow the bait. Probably because in general children don't have 5 television stations and several newspapers to repeat forever an unlikely excuse.
Francesco Defferrari
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