After the Antonio Scurati case and his “censored” anti-fascist monologue, the left’s attack began against the Meloni government which wants to hegemonize television. Oscar Sanguinetti, a scholar of history, but attentive to cultural issues, today intervened on the issue with an interesting editorial (“Telemelons?”18.5.24, Alleanzacattolica.org)
Starting from a Neapolitan saying: “whores and fucks”what does it mean “complain and in the meantime hit low”as a Sicilian I could add our saying that is thrown in the face of those who always complain but then feel fine, you are a “ciangiminestra”. Here the Left has been doing this since the center-right government took office and the red flag was lowered from the towers of power, but in fact it continues to fill pages and pages of newspapers and, in general, obstructs the channels of the mass communication system (and social) media.
“The left, once hegemonic, have lost “some” positions of power in modulating their distorting messages, addressed to a public opinion that is increasingly influenced by mass communication tools – just think of the figure of “influencers“and its growing weight, as still recent news events reveal -, and they use what they have left to scream about the dictatorship, the monopoly, the censorship, the regime, the conspiracy, the danger”.
However, the reality is different, the post-communist left has lost some centimeter of that excessive power they had, they still retain most of it “chairs” — of which the talk show it is the re-edition 2.0 — both in the public and private spheres of communication. Sanguinetti took care to make a brief review – obviously imperfect and partial – of the main ones programs televisions that populate the airwaves today. It limited itself to television channels, excluding national and local radios and social media also left out the various “live life” and the various ones “Sundays in”, focusing on broadcasts specifically dedicated to forming the political opinion, and not only, of Italians. From its mapping, it emerges that men and women from the political or cultural left animate the main evening broadcasts. At this point it is good to list some of these “living rooms”: 1) Massimo Gramellini (La 7); 2) Giovanni Floris (On TuesdayLa 7), since 2014; 3) Lilli Gruber (Half past eight, The 7; daily); 4) Fabio Fazio (What’s the weather likenow on Nove), since 2003; 5) Bianca Berlinguer (It’s always CartabiancaRete 4), since 2016 on Rai3; 6) Corrado Formigli (A clean sweepLa 7); 7) Serena Bortone (What will be…Rai 3); 8) Siegfried Ranucci (ReportsRai 3); 9) Diego Bianchi (“Zoro”) (Live propagandaLa 7); 10) Corrado Augias (The Tower of BabelLa 7); 11) Marco Damilano (The horse and the towerRai 3).
While on the other side, in support of the so-called government “authoritarian”we would have: 1) Bruno Vespa (Door to doorRai 1), the talk longer-lived; 2) Paolo Del Debbio (Forehand and backhandNetwork 4); 3) Mario Giordano (Out of the coreNetwork 4); 4) Nicola Porro (Tonight ItalyNetwork 4).
Wanting to make a football-type assessment, we are 11 to 4, in the private sector; in the public area 4 to 1. Furthermore, Sanguinetti points out that he then neglected the so-called presences “steering wheels” of guests “oriented”— authentic “red help” of information — that these rubrics provide: party men, well-known intellectuals, entertainers, leaders of others talk — current or former, such as Lucia Annunziata, Michele Santoro, Marco Travaglio, Gad Lerner, Davide Parenzo — and, again, journalists and writers. Finally, The Catholic Writer highlights a detail: the bad Italian habit of the journalist interviewing another journalist, something that does not happen for example abroad. Then Sanguinetti asks himself: “where is the regime, where is censorship, where is monopoly, where is “Telemeloni”, where is the assault on average perpetrated by the government?”
Furthermore, Sanguinetti’s intervention does not touch the sore point of the so-called ecultural gemology of the left in the broader field such as publishing, university, school, but also that of music and cinema. In all these sectors since the post-war period, at least since the 1960s, with the ruling PCI dominating in every corner. But here the matter becomes complicated, also because the political and cultural Right itself should get busy, without waiting for who knows what directive from above. In this regard some time ago the journalist and writer Marco Valle had offered some interesting reflections, which deserve further development, on the topic he wondered why in Italy “the world that expresses a substantial relative majority (that is, the Center-Right) when you go to the polls, it becomes insignificant “zeropoint” when it comes to translating the majority “feeling” in society into wide-ranging cultural and information activities”. And according to Valle, “There is no shortage of intellectuals, publishing houses, websites or even journalists (there is even some valid reality on social media) but there is a lack of resources and ideas for “create a system” and therefore everything inevitably gets lost, fragmented, fades into the sea of communication, traditional and digital, always well monitored by those in charge”.(There is no point in babbling about hegemonies if there is no “culture factory”10.1.24, strada.it)
However, for leftist ideology, total control of communication channels is vital. Only in this way can we make the country believe it’s real – already “distracted” in many other ways: sport, festival musicals, “partisan” civil celebrations, “concerts”, holidays, films and TV shows – that reality is different from what one perceives, sometimes dramatically, every day. Again last night at “Before tomorrow”, on network 4, President Bonaccini’s problem was that Ignazio La Russa kept the bust of Mussolini at home, to which Mario Giordano mockingly pointed out to her that his fellow citizens of Emilia Romagna have to deal with waiting lists for specialist visits to hospitals. Not only that, while the left complains about non-existent censorship,
at Caritas there are long queues of poor people waiting for a meal, the same thing happens in front of the “lay person” Daily bread Milanese, or, many other Italians, forced to live in rubbish and in the underworld, as in certain dazzling metropolises.
DOMENICO BONVEGNA
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