Rash On Back Looks Like Scratches

Stasera sono andata ad ascoltare un intervento di Marco Travaglio e Antonio Padellaro alla London School of Economics. E ho ascoltato, ascoltato e ascoltato. Poi ho fatto una domanda e non sono rimasta soddisfatta dalla risposta. Ho scritto una lettera a Padellaro ma data la difficoltà di trovare il suo indirizzo e-mail non mi resta che pubblicarla qua.

Gentile Antonio Padellaro,

Le scrivo perché non sono rimasta soddisfatta dalla sua risposta a proposito di quanto sia chiuso il mondo del giornalismo. Lei mi propone di mandarle an idea for an investigation, ready and packed. First of all, that I guarantee that your newspaper did not take my proposal without giving me any credit? Second, and more importantly, why it is expected that I already have the contacts and the appropriate time (unpaid) to work on a kind of detective story where I am a journalist at the beginning of my career? It's a bit 'like asking a new employee of a company that deals with investments that can be paid only if it brings a new contract with a company (so to give you an example). It's a bit 'absurd. A person who enters into a new profession has the right, in my humble opinion, in a sense to be cared for by a mentor to teach him how the profession.

His response was that these things you learn in journalism school. I agree. But I know that the only publications such as the universities from which you take interns are those conventions, such as the Sacred Heart and LUISS. There are two types of people who go to these universities. Those who have obtained a scholarship (which are often conferred by following practices opaque) and those who can afford it: the privileged, the rich.

But we also talk about the stage. Who can afford to work for free? The privileged, the rich. Maybe take friends of friends. Tell me that she has never done.

In this way journalism is not democratically representative, and in my opinion should be. For example, she knows many people who take following the rules of equal opportunities. Have you ever used a foreigner, a Muslim, more women than men? Journalism is composed of the privileged class. It is perhaps for this reason that Italy is on the 72nd place of Freedom House.

Sincerely,

Federica Cocco