The embarrassment of Amato and Repubblica on Ustica
What Giuliano Amato said and hinted at (complete with a somersault) about Ustica. Damato's Scratches
Questioned verbally and in writing by Verità on the interview granted to Repubblica , and published last Saturday with a title in box characters that shouted Here is the truth about Ustica . Macron apologizes , even if the person concerned was only two and a half years old at the time of the tragedy, Giuliano Amato responded by refusing responsibility for that title. Which, in fact, lacked the warning, contained in the text of the statements by the president emeritus of the Constitutional Court and former president of the Council, that his were only reflections, deductions, intuitions, devoid of proof.
THE DEFENSE OF AMATO
“I – Amato explained – have not told anything new. It wasn't in my possibilities, it wasn't in my intentions. I wanted to bring the issue back to attention, to urge those who could validate that hypothesis to speak". To solicit in vain, apparently, given that no one has moved in this direction, starting with the French. To whose government, however, the Italian one led by Giorgia Meloni does not intend to raise this problem – as anticipated or clarified in a headline in the Messaggero – also risking compromising the already difficult or fluctuating relations between the two countries precisely at the moment in which their collaboration would be precious , for the interests of both, in the ongoing behind-the-scenes negotiations for the revision of the so-called and onerous European stability pact, before it comes back into force after the suspension for Covid.
AMATO'S MISSILE ON REPUBLIC
Although Amato with his dissociation response with the title fired by Repubblica like a missile – yes – on his interview had granted the Truth the opportunity for a controversy with the newspaper to some extent competitor, the editor Maurizio Belpietro preferred to attack, indeed insulting the politician who, moreover, has never enjoyed his sympathy, to say the least. "Dr. Sottile passes the barrel", Belpietro headlined himself on the front page, raging inside with "Dr. Sottile's abrupt reverse unworthy of a servant of the State".
It is useless to have illusions on this side of the news counter, rumors, background stories, comments and controversies aimed more at fueling the political struggle than at informing readers. It is increasingly difficult and embarrassing to figure out who plays more casually with the public: we journalists or "them", the politicians. And with this we archive, at least as far as I am personally concerned, even this ugly page, together, of journalism and politics, in fact. A page in which we journalists have been able to do worse – I fear – than a certain judiciary used to dictating the agenda of the government and the Parliament on duty.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/amato-ustica-figuraccia-repubblica/ on Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:29:34 +0000.