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Oh my God that’s awful! Turn the volume up

18:00 - 19:30   saturday 28/04/2012 -
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Paola Barretta

Osservatorio di Pavia

Remo Croci

Mediaset

Emma D'Aquino

RAI 1 News

Hada Messia

CNN

Roberto Tallei

Sky News Italy

Patricia Thomas

Associated Press Television News

Oh my God that’s awful! Turn the volume up

The coverage of murders and disappearances gets disproportionate air time on Italian TV. Is this demand-led or supply-led? Has all the accompanying journalistic endeavour ever contributed anything useful to the ongoing police investigations? Infotainment with a morbid twist or dutiful attention to issues of legitimate public interest and concern?