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Do not click – La Stampa

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If there really was an Order of Journalists now we would know. We would know if the newspapers (many) that published the video of the last moments of life of the passengers of the Mottarone cable car were right. Or the few who haven’t. Or those who did it by simultaneously distancing themselves from what they were doing (clear example of those who never make peace with themselves). Or those who started the lacerating internal debate before publishing it to absolve itself. Or finally that newspaper that first published it and then published the very harsh note of the prosecutor of the Republic of Verbania which says it was illegal to publish it, and even worse, if possible, immoral. Typical example of Italian comedy.

If there were an Order of Journalists, really, we could understand where the rights stop and the duties of journalists begin in this complex, digital, very fast age, in which a video at the proceedings of an investigation is relaunched to the whole world with a click and then you don’t stop it anymore and if you work as a journalist you feel like those who have to empty the sea with a spoon. Useless. On Twitter, where sentences are immediate, sharp and often pillory-like, journalists, as a category, have been condemned without extenuating circumstances. I don’t think anyone is interested in knowing if I would have published that video or not (they are all phenomena, from the outside). But I think it is important to establish some fixed points, from which we should not depart if we do not want to end up, as a social community, in an escarpment. The first is that no, this video is not like the one made with the mobile phone by the young Darnell Frazier while the cops were killing poor George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis. That was an act of courage that served to prove what had happened; in the video of the surveillance cameras of the cable car there is certainly no courage. So can it be compared to the video of the 2001 attack on the Twin Towers or the one of the Kennedy murder of 1963, how did someone do it? I don’t know, but I know that while these issues are being discussed, we could do something, as citizens. Do not click on certain videos. Do not click even if it says that certain images could offend our sensitivity. Do not click even if that notice is made on purpose to get your hands on and in the meantime turn on the morbid side of our curiosity.

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If some make the choice to publish, we can still choose not to click. I didn’t click on the videos where terrorists were seen cutting off the heads of poor Western hostages. I don’t click to watch the death live. I don’t generally click on too many titles that on websites try in every way to make me click on shiny posts like the pies sold in certain markets. Perhaps in the age of the Internet we cannot prevent someone from posting what they want. But we can not click. It is always better to empty the sea with a spoon than to continue polluting it.

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