Why is the economy given so little space on TV despite its enormous influence on public life and politics? What is it needed to make such a seemingly impenetrable subject popular on TV? Who are the ...
Francesco Specchia
Francesco Specchia is media correspondent of the Italian daily Libero, for which he writes the blog Complimenti per la trasmissione. He is co-author with Luca D’Alessandro of Diario inedito del Grande fratello. Con tutto ciò che non si è visto in Tv (2001) and author of Gli inaffondabili. Un manipolo d’eroi d’inizio millenio (2005), Terrorismo. L’altra storia (2007), Parole di un paroliere (2008) and Giulio Andreotti. Parola di Giulio (2008).
Thirty years of commercial TV in Italy have moulded the tastes and attitudes of the nation, its political ideology, its adhesion to Berlusconiism. That's now changed. With the advent of digital we'r...
Captain, get back on board for **** sake! How the sinking of the cruise ship Costa Concordia on 13 January 2012 off the coast of Tuscany was represented in the media. To be followed by a viewing o...
All-news channels. Albert Camus would have approved “The journalist is the historian of the moment” said Albert Camus. A neat definition of all-news channels, which have the potentially onerous t...