Word: medias
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...discussion of what's wrong with Italian politics eventually leads to the question of what's wrong with the country's media. In a nation where the Prime Minister controls the airwaves, only one out of 10 people buys a daily paper, compared with one in five Americans and three in five people in Japan, according to the World Association of Newspapers. Italians, it seems, don't care to read the news...
...fault doesn't lie with Italians' appetite for news? What if the problem is with what's on the menu? At a literary festival in central Sardinia last month, I had a chance to feel the public's dissatisfaction with what was on offer. During a panel on the media, when I observed that Italian journalists seem to write mostly for each other, for politicians, or for the pleasure of reading their own prose, the audience clapped its approval. For much of the following hour, questioners demanded to know why the news wasn't being written for them...
...crisis shaking media houses across the world has made no exception for Italy. In a country where layoffs are all but forbidden, more than 500 journalists are expected to lose their jobs in September. Yet the demand for a different type of reporting remains striking. Last fall, I attended a festival of international journalism organized by the magazine Internazionale, a weekly compilation of foreign news sources. Attendees overflowed the auditoriums, then sat in the piazzas to listen to the proceedings over loudspeakers. In an era of plunging circulation, sales of Internazionale grew 25% last year. "The people who stop buying...
...Kids' Journalism Is Alright Your story on Ann Arbor's changing media landscape incorrectly noted that the Michigan Daily - of which I am the editor-in-chief - doesn't cover the town [Aug. 17]. A quick glance at MichiganDaily.com would have revealed that the Daily does cover Ann Arbor politics and business along with its extensive coverage of the University of Michigan. We were, in fact, the only publication in the city to officially endorse candidates in recent city-council elections. The Daily may not be a new online operation promising to solve journalism's financial woes...
Meanwhile, Berlusconi's repeated claims that he is Italy's' victim No. 1 of the media strike many as absurd, or downright Orwellian. His ownership of and influence over some 90 % of Italian television is again on bright display, as commercials have been banned on all major TV stations of a new Swedish movie that criticizes Berlusconi's media control...