The structural crisis of the media system
Of Gennaro Scala
Source: The Antidiplomat
E’ There is a radical crisis in the Western media system underway, within an overall transformation of the political system of a global and epochal nature(1). The center of propagation of the earthquake is in the USA, but it also has its resonance in Italy, which could become an important laboratory at European level, in which new structures could be tested to cope with the ongoing upheaval. The earthquake, at the moment, It has the appearance of a bradyseism, with constant instability made up of daily controversies that go beyond the lines, but it could erupt into more dramatic movements. The transformation of social geography is already underway, What remains to be seen are the solutions implemented to deal with them. The crisis could result in a new system in which formal democratic guarantees could disappear, which could be the easy "solution" to the crisis of the "left", now more and more often mentioned (one example among many: Jason Brennan's book, “against democracy” which had a preface by Sabino Cassese, In the 2013 one of the PD candidates for the presidency of the Republic), or in a new system that instead exploits the potential of new means for a restructuring of democracy aimed at a different mass involvement, indispensable in the management of complex companies like ours.
The main factors of crisis in the media system, seen within the overall crisis of the political system are, first of all, the end of the “era of globalization”, actually a fairly short and transitory period, ended with Russia's return to the field, and with the definitive affirmation of China as a global power. The failure of globalization requires a radical rethinking of political strategies and the ideologies associated with them. The so-called “globalization” was that short period, if commensurate with historical times, in which the USA, at the head of the “Western countries”, when the USSR was already showing an irreversible crisis, they thought they could become the only world power. Context in which a globalist ideology was formed and became dominant based on political correctness, which we start symbolically with the "Live aid" of 1985 in which the Western world proclaimed through its "stars": “We are the world”. Read More