Meritocracy Italy: ‘merit exaltation is not a tool for gathering media consensus’

“A year of national pride. A year of successes. After the Italian triumph at the Eurovision Song Contest, after the medals won at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, after the victory of the European football, men’s and women’s volleyball and football American, after the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the many other international achievements, it is the turn of the great international music competitions “. Thus Meritocrazia Italia in a note where it notes that “little noise has been made by the recent recognition of the talent of Giuseppe Gibboni, who, at only 20 years old, was the best among the 102 competitors in the race from all over the world. After 24 years and for the third time in history, Italy is once again distinguishing itself in this field. The news did not color the front pages of the newspapers. No media coverage. No celebratory ceremony before the Institutions “. “It seems that the limelight – Meritocrazia Italia remarks – belongs only to what is national-popular, which allows you to easily capture the attention of the masses and gather a large audience. It often happens that the exaltation of Merit is subservient to interests other than those of promotion of virtuous models “. Meritocrazia Italia, “in congratulating all those who restore prestige to a national identity made of sacrifice, study and dedication, calls for a return to transparency and communicative completeness, honesty of thought and a press aimed not at supporting the trends of moment but to promote the Culture of Merit, to bring light back into the darkness of defeatism and disillusionment and to spread awareness of the power of individual commitment “.