Actuality | events

Carlo Freccero: Foa, finally a Rai President out of the frame
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Carlo Freccero: Foa, finally a Rai President out of the frameby Carlo Freccero

Foa is part of a small group of opinion leaders, blogger, journalists and thinkers, who present the other side of the coin on the internet, the facts beyond the propaganda

I wrote some time ago on these pages that the order of speech it's changing. Foa's proposal to president of Rai is a confirmation of my statement. I'll say more. If the nomination is followed by the proposal, there is a good chance that this process would be accelerated, because information is fundamental for the formation of public opinion. The proof? The hysterical reaction with which his candidacy was received by the entire mainstream press. The Movement 5 Stelle suggested Salini and no one had anything to object to. The League proposed Foa and the uproar broke out. It is paradoxical that Foa is being fought as a fake news dealer. In this area Foa is a precursor, but in reverse.

It's from 2006, a year that in terms of the fight against fake news is prehistoric, that Foa analyzes the problem of truth in politics. His book The sorcerers of the news, of which among other things the update has been released, critically analyzes the phenomenon of spin doctors and its implications in terms of democracy. The figure of the spin doctor is not a figment of the imagination of conspiracy theorists, but an official figure, well paid, which has long been involved in organizing the electoral campaigns of Democratic and Republican candidates in America and which, more recently, it was also introduced in Italy. I remember the spin doctor who followed the Monti government and the complete Americanization of the Renzian electoral campaign. The spin doctor is not bound by the truth. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites
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Of Carlo Freccero
The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites
THE SELF-CRITICISM OF A CERTAIN LEFT (N.D.R.)
Source: The Manifesto
The left is in crisis today and is wondering how it could speak to the new populisms to lead them back to the tracks of an elitist democracy that resembles an oligarchy more than a democracy in the strict sense.
Vice versa, even when he says he wants to listen to the malaise of which populism is an expression, the left entrenches itself in the clichés of political correctness. While, In my opinion, an objective self-analysis would be enough to understand things from another angle. The question is what the left is today and what the left once was? Because there has been such a radical change? I already know the answer. We were wrong. What if we are wrong now?
In any case, reflect on what the left was at its origins, already contains the answer to the problem of populism today.
Before, right-wing populism didn't exist because many of the instances of today's populism were on the left. And the growth of people's rights was not considered reactionary, but progressive.
The great fracture on the left begins with the so-called third way and the complete surrender of progressives to neoliberalism. Since then we have been immersed in the single thought to the point of having lost the memory of ourselves. Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Fiction and geopolitics, how storytelling tells reality
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Of Carlo Freccero
Fiction and geopolitics, how storytelling tells reality
Source: Formiche.net

Television writer, writer, mass media expert and political communication expert, in a conversation with Formiche.net he delves into a topic dear to him, lo storytelling politico, starting from American fiction

“Series are a form of geopolitics, they manage to make the real understood more than the real” and if to say it and Carlo Freccero you can't help but believe him. Television writer, writer, mass media expert and political communication expert, in a conversation with Formiche.net explores a topic dear to him, lo storytelling politico, starting from American fiction, capable, explains Freccero, to be ahead of the curve more than any other form of communication, also the election of Donald Trump to the White House. While in Italy…
He said fiction is truer than truth, what does it mean?
It's very simple, fiction must be understood as critical storytelling of reality. Because of this, in some way it is capable of anticipating this reality, because he knows how to grasp the spirit of the time. If I think and read Hause of Cards, which was the perfect portrait of Clintonism in its declinations, it was inevitable that Trump would then arrive. And not only that. Another sensational example of how the series have rewritten power is 24, which had already anticipated September 11th, what is called the state of exception, and I could continue. But there is a very important fact, that is, US politics can be understood through the critical vision of American seriality, what an eye opener, it does a ferocious debunking of reality that mainstream newspapers are not capable of doing. Read More

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