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by 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

Of Alessio Mannino
Chico, where there is an idiot (who sees “bundles” everywhere) Calling the pro-child advert of the baby products company "fascist" shows that the sense of limits has been lost. And about being parents
Proof of how much advertising is the true Collective Intellectual of the consumer society, lo Chicco television commercial which invites us to do so by taking advantage of the absence of the Azzurri at the World Cup, returning to give birth with gusto in an Italy that procreates little, has sparked outrage on the perpetually menstruating web, as if it were an institutional message promoted by the new populist and sovereignist government. "Alarms, they are fascists": even the copywriters of the pram and baby articles company? Yes, according to those who spilled the beans on social networks, which then are i beam-all-seeing, those who he sees people bandage everywhere – next time, what do we know, it could happen to Nutella (too dark, almost black), or to agricultural trade associations that invite you to buy Italian (autarky, autarky!) or to anyone who should ever recall in non-defamatory terms works such as the reclamation of the Agro Pontino (oh no, Antonio Pennacchi has already done it, hard and pure communist, with its – beautiful – “Mussolini Canal”). Read More