Meritocracy Italy: ‘freedom of the press is not uncontrolled arbitrariness’

“When there is an infringement of the sphere of confidentiality and of the personal dignity of individuals without a real need or intention to inform, there is no exercise but abuse of the freedom of the press and the right of the press. Only by way of example, lastly (but the practice is not new) it is possible to learn from the pages of important newspapers the details of the earnings or spending choices of some parliamentarians and ministers. News useful only to feed the suspicion of the underworld, riding on the already widespread feeling of social injustice, raising media hype , attract users around newspapers, websites and television broadcasts, and favor the professional and personal affirmation of some. In the name of patrimonial interests, fundamental rights are sacrificed “. Thus in a note Meritocrazia Italia. “We have become accustomed – Meritocrazia Italia notes – to a journalism made not of truth but of spectacularization, which takes advantage of disorientation, obscures the real and deprives citizens of any instrument of conscious judgment, thus annihilating the power of democratic participation. The bad information opens to judgments that are not built on solid and in-depth evaluations, but on subjective and suggestive judgment parameters. Often to the advantage of a deleterious justicialism and with all due respect to the principle of not guilty. suspects immediately serve the execution of an immediate and hasty sentence on the level of reputation and social and professional relations. Add the strong contribution given to the social unease of the last two years by the malicious information opacity regarding the data on the spread of the infection or on the usefulness of vaccines The duty of loyalty – he remarks – of every journalist is disattended o not only when there is no actual correspondence between narrated and reality, but also when relevant details or other reconnectable facts such as to change their meaning are hidden, and when the presentation of the facts lacks serene objectivity and does not guarantee compliance with “that minimum of dignity to which even the most reprehensible of people is always entitled “, resorting to subtle insinuations and misleading combinations”. On several occasions Meritocrazia Italia “has already called for a return to the seriousness of the journalistic mission, the social usefulness of information, respect for professional ethics, awareness of the importance of the role of information and communication completeness and transparency. Today – he concludes – he returns to ask for that truth which is always at the basis of truly conscious choices, capacity for critical evaluation and participatory democracy “.