The shocking climax of a murder investigation during a live broadcast left Italians on Friday questioning the role of television in a country governed by media mogul Silvio Berlusconi.
There were angry reactions after 3.5 million people saw the mother of missing schoolgirl Sarah Scazzi being told on live television this week that her daughter was probably dead and that her brother-in-law was being charged.
"This is the last frontier of a culture that . . . has long given the media the right and the duty to probe everything, to enter everywhere and monitor our existence until the moment we expire," Il Giornale daily said in an editorial. More...
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There were angry reactions after 3.5 million people saw the mother of missing schoolgirl Sarah Scazzi being told on live television this week that her daughter was probably dead and that her brother-in-law was being charged.
"This is the last frontier of a culture that . . . has long given the media the right and the duty to probe everything, to enter everywhere and monitor our existence until the moment we expire," Il Giornale daily said in an editorial. More...
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