Is political news relatively pure or relatively adulterated? How do the political narratives we find in newspapers and on TV actually start? In short, does political news serve to clarify or to obfusc...
Nicola Biondo
director communications M5S
Nicola Biondo is the director of communications for the Movimento 5 Stelle political party in the Chamber of Deputies, the Lower House of the Italian Parliament. He previously wrote for the Italian daily L’Unità. He was a consultant to the Italian Parliamentary Commission which looked into the Mitrokhin affair. He is co-author with Sigfrido Ranucci of Il patto (2010) and with Giuseppe Gulotta of Alkamar (213).
The heavy hand of the Italian intelligence services on news distortion, manipulation, creation? Yet another great urban legend of our times? Or has major lunchtime plotting been going on?