Impartiality smoothie
The more I read about impartiality, the more I realise that it’s much easier to recognise when it’s missing than when it’s present! In preparation for our presentation, I was trying to come up with a definition for impartiality and found it rather difficult. Impartiality is a cocktail of many things: accuracy, balance, fairness and open-mindedness to name a few. What it boils down to is presenting a wide spectrum of views, giving the audience the opportunity to weigh everything up and make up their own minds. That is essentially what is missing in Italy – a breadth of views. Only one official view is allowed to be broadcast. It is the absence of other views that makes Italian media so blatantly partial.
If you’re interested in learning more about ways Prime Minister Berlusconi has been stamping out other views in Italy, click here.
On the Fence 