Because the applause for Draghi at the press conference is not a scandal
Italics by Paola Sacchi
A short applause, of Christmas courtesy, as we understand from the video, against Prime Minister Mario Draghi has become a social pillory for journalists.
The undersigned, parliamentary political journalist, former special envoy nominated at the age of 36, a small curriculum including interviews with questions that are not exactly convenient to some statesman or all-round political leader who marked important phases of politics, was literally covered by a rain of insults on Twitter.
And this only for having responded in a civilized and argued way, within the limits of Twitter's characters, to a tweet of very harsh criticism for that applause, absolutely legitimate and without verbal excesses, by the honorable Marco Campomenosi, MEP of the League.
The site "Economic Scenarios" very nicely accused me of double licking, without having raised "the august terga", since I was not present, as I wrote that I too would have applauded Draghi together with the courage shown by the League (party of the MEP) entering what is a national emergency government and not, as we know, a technical executive. And down it offenses à go-gò of other sailors for having expressed a political concept, namely that it is not always and only to protest to the center-right.
But, here I can write it more extensively, in addition to criticism and protest, it is necessary to build to become a true alternative ruling class in this country. That center-right ruling class which, moreover, in the real country, and not in a certain virtual media-social bubble, is already embodied by those administrators of the clear majority of the Regions and in thousands and thousands of Municipalities, who are called to make hard, difficult choices every day. , all the more so in times of pandemics. There are dozens of councils, where in many cases the League is driving the coalition.
But some navigators seem to have a somewhat split vision of reality, if on the one hand they may have been voters of those administrations, they have strong reservations, grumbles, very harsh reactions towards the participation of Lega and Forza Italia in the national emergency executive . Which for this purpose was born and therefore not of national unity. It was born with the aim of rebuilding a country overwhelmed by the pandemic and the consequent worsening of the economic crisis.
The social discontent that sometimes degenerates into gratuitous verbal aggression is fortunately not representative of the real country that struggles and tries to get up. And the pillory for journalists, as a whole, as a category, seems to have often become the tool to give vent to political criticism or frustration of all kinds.
They all feel like journalists on social media and often on TV. Everyone knows how to exercise what is instead a precise profession, for many a mission, a life passion which, without rhetoric, has unfortunately also recorded his deaths from Siani to Cutuli. And therefore, since unfortunately, and this has been a limitation of politics for 30 years with exceptions such as the League, which has remained a territorial force, since there are not many places of debate, because there are not many party offices in the area, nothing can be found. better than to attack, insult, pillory journalists as a scapegoat.
Without, however, with little courage, never take into account the strongest, or publishers. In a talk-social short circuit where the best is the one who screams the most, where the uncomfortable question becomes not that of substance but the joke with the effect of the moment.
Journalists certainly can make mistakes, like all categories, the so-called mainstream that has always been dominated by the left (but the center-right also wonders why if they want to reverse the trend) does not help to understand what happens in real reality, self-centered talks on personal performances have replaced the real investigations on the territory.
And the pillory for a Christmas courtesy applause is part of a now mad mayonnaise debate. Made of all-roundism, where journalists and commentators pose as doctors and scientists and virologists will soon deal with Quirinale too.
Merry Christmas.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/applausi-draghi-conferenza-stampa/ on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:31:39 +0000.