13 May 2008

Information Black Out

It’s really true that : The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth!

The attacks that the journalist Marco Travaglio is being subjected to simply for having reported the news about facts that are true and that have happened and that relate to no lesser person than the one with the second most important position in the State, the President of the Senate Schifani, show us that, as usual, when it comes to defending the Caste, the leaders of the parties on the Right and on the Left close ranks and become a single unit (as happened at the moment of the Great Pardon).

So I ask myself and I ask you: but if a journalist reveals circumstances that are not known to most of the citizens, is he fulfilling his own duty to report and provide criticism or not? If it turns out that Schifani was associated with people of the criminal world, then the President of the Senate, exactly because he in this high position, should explain his reasons or contest the facts. It is his moral duty.

And again I ask myself and this time I ask the many good thinkers of the Democratic Party: but do you know who they are these people Nino Mandalà and Benny D’Agostino who have been convicted for mafia? And do you know what it means to have been associated with these people in the golden times of the mafia, as Schifani was? Well then, where’s the harm if an independent journalist asks transparent questions and in the same transparent way informs the general public?

What’s the point in attacking Travaglio just for telling the truth? Instead of getting angry with him, wouldn’t it be better to take the opportunity to set up a detailed and truthful information campaign about who is in Parliament, in the Government or in the other institutions controlled by politics? Or otherwise is the silence due to the fact that even in the ranks of the Centre Left there are embarrassing positions that make it better to pretend there’s nothing and to align themselves with the adversary in the hope that one day they will return the favour?

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information