Category: War Diary

For almost seven years, I have been following in parallel both corporate or “official” media institutions and independent ones, especially the left ones, because this is my perspective. I have significant media experience, some 15 years, and I know that every media corporation has an agenda. Even if it does not tip the political balance one way or the other, the media institution is in any case tributary to the customers who buy advertising. For example, Coca Cola can also put Cialis in its soup, that we will not see any report on television unless the handkerchief can be thrown on the drum in time. The only way in which the press can be independent, and therefore as objective as possible, is when the institution is supported directly by the money of the audience, through direct donations. I say how much because objectivity is an objective (pun intended) extremely difficult to achieve, being influenced by the most banal details, such as the placement on the page, the order of the news, not to mention the political orientation of the author. In fact, I don’t think there is an objective press, instead it is appreciated when the journalist is honest, even this being a…