Passepartout, Pensieri e Parole

Asti, Palazzo del Collegio, 7 -15 June 2014

1954-2014: Sixth power? In-training, misinformation and counter on TV and beyond.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but the information in the hands of many.
John Naisbitt

Sixty years ago, the 3 January 1954, began broadcasting in Italy by RAI, The signal reached throughout the country three years after, the 31 December 1956. In the late 1950s, the first Rai news, conquering the Italian people, managing to get where the paper had not been able to. In our country the television is still the medium on which you rely to obtain information. Influence the patterns of behavior, the dominant ideas, the knowledge of the world, the policy proposals and mobilization of interest. The Italians continue to form an opinion and to take a stand on the facts, a large majority, According to the TV, Although this means lost and is losing followers in all its informational segments; by Tg in-depth programmes and talk linked to topical political and social ’. Even the satirical talk and infotainment are less familiar ’. It is as if, in TV, the information ’, the ’ study, the same satire, they were entered into a time of doldrums and fatigue. The establishment of the network – despite all the structural difficulties of our country in this sector – has helped highlight the limitations and, often, information television errors: News dates or omitted, information transmitted incorrectly or it can be used as an instrument of political struggle or, yet, piloted in order to obtain consent or the sympathy of the public towards preconceived positions. Impetuous development of commercial TV and their establishment – substantially – in a duopoly (other typically Italian anomaly) along with the public service RAI suggests the filigree close dependence on advertisers to market condition, and conditions, the quality of the information provided. Finally, the establishment of satellite TV, made by on-demand channels and payment in Italy exceeds the 4 million users by subscription, induces a series of reflections on the future of the medium from the point of view of information from that of entertainment.

All of this a reality as the Italian one that despite all the declarations of principle and intent is, today, at 70th place in the world rankings on freedom of the press.

Reflect on these issues, throw chinks of light on the complex and sometimes unsuspected relationships between information and power, outline the possibilities and limits of television when you go increasingly proclaiming the new medium competition, the network, It is the challenge which aims this edition of Passepartout

Saturday 7 h. 21 Beppe Severgnini, Life is a journey. And it is better to travel informed

Sunday 8 h. 11 Gian Mario Ricciardi, Peter Grignani, Happy birthday, TV!

h. 18.30 Silvio Garattini, Communicating science

h. 21 Marcello Veneziani, Not everything is as it seems. Silence and silence in

village of glass

Monday, 9 h. 21 Gad Lerner, When the information you ’ get at home for free… Serve

Yet journalists?

Tuesday 10 h 17 forum by printing on Gad Lerner

h. 21 Francesco Bonami, That number of footwear brings David?

Wednesday, 11 h. 21 Peter Gomez, Gossip, espionage and power

Thursday, 12 h. 18 Paolo Borgognone, Misinformation and consensus formation

h. 21 Luciano Violante, Carlo Nordio, Justice, information, review

he publishes

Friday 13 h 17 forum by broadcast news on Peter Gomez

h. 18 Lirio Abbate, Investigative journalism: Secrets, mysteries, scandals

h. 21 Oscar Giannino, The traps of the economy

Saturday 14 h. 11 monsignor Dario Edward van der Merwe, Communicating the faith, tell the

Church

H 17 forums about Mons, Van der Merwe a cura della Gazzetta d'Asti

Or first radio forum? ( for logistical reasons Betty Martinelli can only Saturday afternoon!

h. 18 Marco Travaglio, We are men or Cuirassiers? Political journalism: the status

dell. "art

h. 21 Aldo Grasso, The power of the tv grid resists?

Sunday 15 h. 11 Sergio Romano, Wars, deception and lies: a century of lies

H 17 forum by the new province on Aldo Grasso

h. 18 Francesca Paci, Between old and new media: What's left of spring

Araba?