FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
There is one emergency among others in Italy, not the most important, God forbid, but perhaps the most conspicuous. AND the monopoly of the public narrative, an indecent spectacle. State information, and a large part of the private one, every day he churns out a one-sided version of the facts according to the ideological-political canon of the left. Even now that the left does not govern and represents a highly minority share of Italian citizens. On the contrary, the collapse of consensus and credibility accentuates rather than attenuates the bias of information, also to establish an alibi in advance: the nominees want to be seen as victims of purge when new appointments are made, given that the political shareholder of reference who has always appointed the top management has changed. And so for preventive purposes they increase the doses of their factionalism to then pass as martyrs of the Idea and the Profession.
I'll give you two examples of the one-way story. Democratic Party demonstration last Sunday. All Rai news programs - but also private ones- they dedicate the euphoric opening of the news to her, considering a modest demonstration by a clear minority party as the main event of the day.
Second case, the mayor of Riace arrested: the same news broadcasts unitedly report the news of his indictment, openly siding with the accused, interviewing him, his supporters, migrants. And afterwards, entire news, starting from tg1, are built on the theme of migrants, welcome, racism, declined in all sauces but always with a single interpretation.
Meanwhile, the carneade who directs tg1, established in the Renzian era, Andrea Montanari, He reacts indignantly to the criticism, saying that they want to invent a political scandal to hit him, “an autonomous director” and to evidently replace him with a servant of politics. But he doesn't, it is Pure, he is there on TG1 because he is a giant of journalism, It's Indro Montanari, a kind of TV Montanelli. The director of TG2 is on the same wavelength Ida Colucci who makes an embarrassing news show and dedicates entire reports to irrelevant politically correct bullshit, but then censors an interview of public interest to Steve Bannon, ideological leader of the sovereignist movement that is popular across half the world. It was quite a shot, but he is not from the parish, in fact it is anti. Yesterday on TG2 at one o'clock the Riace case was resolved with an interview with the arrested mayor and a report on left-wing and migrant demonstrations in his favor. No other news, voce, different opinion; in this case who cares about legality.
The miracle workers on the left want to make people believe that they became directors by virtue of the Holy Spirit and because they are champions of television journalism, free and independent spirits, while those who come will be enslaved, parceled out, shoddy. Naturally they are backed by the newspaper dome, which continue the one-way story of TV on printed paper. Now I seem to see three clear violations in all this drama.
At first, as big as a house, it's their showiness, little girl, partisan factionalism, che ha un senso se dirigi il manifesto, un giornale che definisce apertamente la sua identità e si rivolge a un suo pubblico; ma non se dirigi il telegiornale di un servizio pubblico, che vedono e pagano tutti. E ancor più grave diventa la prevaricazione faziosa se non c’è nemmeno la suddivisione dei tg, come ai tempi della becera lottizzazione: uno governativo, il secondo di centrodestra e il terzo di sinistra. No, ora sono tutti dalla stessa parte.
La seconda violazione è che l’informazione va da una parte e il popolo italiano, la sua maggioranza, va dall’altra, vede e pensa in modo opposto al soviet della tv. Per dirla all’ingrosso, un terzo della gente è con la Lega, un terzo è coi grillini, e il terzo che resta è diviso tra centro-destra e sinistra, more scattered streams. But it is the latter that holds the monopoly on public reporting on current affairs and politics, of the economy and the world, of history and culture, of society and customs. Yet two thirds of Italians can no longer tolerate the left's Single Story.
The third violation it is in the gratuitous and grotesque superiority complex induced by the task. For many miracle workers, the function of director does not develop the organ but the presumption. There are many people who are at the top of information only because the political master decided so, which sometimes went so far as to dictate the headlines of the news. And not because they were the best and sometimes not even simply good. And now they don't accept others coming (hopefully better than them) with criteria similar to those that led to their appointment, by the new majority political shareholders.
We are in the dictatorship of the Story managed by the mediocre. But you will see that all hell will break loose as soon as someone dares to remove them. They will all become mayors of Riace, Victims of the racist and populist Ogre, the saints and pilgrim Madonnas of the weeping left will also take to the field, there will be Saviana's cries. Here they are, i Raibelli.
MV, The weather 5 October 2018
http://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/i-raibelli/