23 August 2007

Trials out in the open air

At Garlasco a young woman has been murdered. This episode of criminal news has been transformed into a reality show. The fiancé has been warned that action may be taken against him and people close to the family have been interrogated. This is normal procedure for a murder.

The disproportionate media coverage given to the event and that has already divided the Italians into those who have come down on the side of “innocent” and those on the side of “guilty” is completely misplaced. The investigations are no longer being carried out by the prosecution but by the journalists on a basis that is unfounded and based on inference.
It’s understandable that even in August they have to write something, from the analysis of well known singers on Veltroni’s programme to the birth of virtual parties of the centre right. However, it is not acceptable that conclusions of the investigation are being revealed before the investigators have made their pronouncements. There’s much talk of privacy and then the monster is plastered over the front page to sell more copies and to create an audience.
Three families: the family of the girl who’s been killed, of her cousins, and of the fiancé have all been brought out into the open and treated like butcher’s meat.

I don’t believe that this is journalism and that the investigations are getting any advantage from this.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information