I unmask the hypocritical journalists on the alleged dossiers against Crosetto and beyond
Somersaults, hypocrisy and tartufisms of major newspapers and big names on the alleged cases of dossier against Crosetto and beyond. Extract from an article by Giacomo Amadori, judicial reporter, for the newspaper La Verità
In reporting on the registration of Pasquale Striano, a financier on the eve of retirement, in the register of suspects for abusive access to computer databases (not even, at least for now, a small revelation of state secrets), the main newspapers have used headlines worthy of worst times: " The blackmail factory ", "The Republic of dossiers ", "It's a hunt for instigators", "A central dossier discredited politicians and VIPs", "From Pecorelli to SISMI the history of Italy from spies and blackmail" .
Yet, to date, no other subjects apart from the military are registered and on the horizon there are no great old men or puppeteers of any kind. But only one of the many stories of more or less qualified sources who pass confidential news to journalists.
Some borderline reports on which investigative journalism has always made a living, like it or not. Even if today's story does not seem even remotely comparable to those of the dossiers printed with the mimeograph by Giuliano Tavaroli's Telecom security or the secret archive of the former 007 Pio Pompa.
On Thursday, colleagues from the so-called big-newspapers […] gave public opinion the story in a press release version of a central dossier at the National Anti-Mafia Directorate which politicians of all stripes immediately jumped at. But in the fanciful pastiche, good for revitalizing the languid Augustan news, a bit of everything and even its opposite entered.
And so the reporters, […] began to spread the tale of the central dossier, putting in a single cauldron all the reports of suspicious transactions that have come out in various newspapers in recent months.
The Corriere correspondent also included Matteo Renzi among the alleged victims, without mentioning that the historic companion had published an SOS on the former prime minister. And the writer is an eyewitness to a phone call from the former Rottamatore in the Prosecutor's Office to report to the top management of the presentation of a lawsuit against the journalist for an alleged disclosure of a secret, perhaps to find a shortcut that ordinary citizens cannot take.
Among the ultras of the investigation, Nicola Porro stands out, who is always in the front row when it comes to celebrating together with someone in power. But in this case he misses the target and tries to insinuate that we would have become guarantors with the lieutenant for who knows what obscure reasons. He who about ten years ago threatened to unleash "the bloodhounds" against the non-Berlusconian Confindustria.
Let's reassure Porro: Striano has never been one of our sources. And we challenge him to prove otherwise. Having said that, the conductor accuses us of publishing "crap". Evidently his quiet lounge chatter and combed to zero news (so it doesn't pollute) are better.
Renzi's Reformist , after renaming the investigation "Killeropoli", indicated the targets and compiled a list of articles containing SOS and related publication masthead with this gloss: "In political circles (sic, ed) it is noted that in to be involved are always two or three newspapers and very few journalists».
In short, the members of the Caste compile the proscription lists of the «bad» reporters. Very little reassuring. The article was signed by Alessio De Giorgi, known in the news for having been part of Renziana's Bestiolina, the squad that at one point had even theorized the social mascaria of political opponents, perhaps with the hiring of "at least two journalists from investigation and a private investigator of proven trust and professionalism (average cost-other)".
Renzi's advisers hypothesized a "counter-propaganda" also made up of stalking the enemy in the moment and of "character assassination" or "news, indiscretions, revelations aimed at destroying the reputation and image of Grillo, Di Maio, Di Battista, Fico, Taverna, Lombardi, Raggi, Appendino, Davide Casaleggio (and his company), Travaglio and Scanzi». But now the former prime minister is playing the virgin.
De Giorgi's unmemorable piece has been updated with a personal attack on the writer, Porro-style. But if the Mediaset presenter had alluded, in this case the suicide bombers of the Riformista anxious to lose more money in civil cases write: «And as is rumored among the Roman palaces it could be the journalist of La Verità (the truth they like) who having received greedy information from this marshal under investigation or from other characters in the same affair".
So those in charge have found the ideal scapegoat for their media misadventures: a financier close to retirement accused of "spying" on the powerful and perhaps of passing a few tissue papers to his reporter friend (who is not in our editorial staff).
A lesson sent to unified networks to the few who feel it is a civic duty to bring out possible conflicts of interest or other flaws of the ruling class even at the cost of committing a crime (in this case still to be ascertained) and risking their careers.
But while the financier is being beaten […], the news we wrote yesterday went silent, namely that, according to the suspect, an important toga commissioned him from the National Anti-Mafia Directorate a report on the affairs of Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell' utri. Obviously confidential.
In the past, Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning (later Chelsea) became progressive icons who, however, released documents covered by military secrecy, but the financier who spied on the affairs of the Minister of Defense at least worthy of investigation must be buried. Better to turn other people's soldiers into movie heroes.
(…) The various international consortia of investigative journalism of which La Repubblica has the honor of being a part have for some time been circulating in the media cards stolen from the computers of this or that private company by unfaithful but «democratic» employees. They range from the Panama and Pandora papers to the latest case of the Abu Dhabi secrets. And everyone peels their hands.
But now the financier who did not pass the news to them, but to other journalists (former employees of the same Gedi group) deserves the pillory and a nine-column opening title like the aforementioned "The blackmail factory".
Even if in the past the Largo Fochetti newspaper had emphasized the reports of suspicious transactions, for example the one concerning funds destined for Matteo Salvini's staff. Yesterday they started circulating on the chats of Fiamme Gialle and magistrates dossiers already packaged on Striano.
[…] As a cherry on top, an article written by the lieutenant was posted, to "point out the tenor of some of his interventions". The judiciary will establish whether Striano has committed crimes and, if any, which ones. But seeing the reporters who raise their glasses together with the politicians in the face of the investigation into a journalistic source worries us a little.
(Excerpt from an article in the newspaper La Verità, here the complete version)
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/dossieraggi-crosetto-giornalisti-ipocriti/ on Sun, 06 Aug 2023 06:20:56 +0000.