“In a scandalous country, we should not be afraid to reveal the truth.” These are the words of the great Italian jurist and democratic journalist Norberto Bobbio. In his time, when almost everyone in Italy had something to do with the mafia, confiding in the scandals revealed by democratic investigative journalism was almost the only way to fight the corruption of the political system which affected all state powers, including the media, the police and the judges, with courageous exceptions.
Bobbio participated in the great Italian journalistic debate on the border between scandal and sensationalism; The latter also devastated the country, especially when the press pay (by the mafia) contributed very actively to the decomposition of the transalpine country. Hence, underlines the great jurist, the usefulness of not remaining silent, of the necessary scandal: When he scandal serve.
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