"Press freedom is the foundation of democracy." Even in Italy there are "countless examples" of corruption and attacks on the press: "As the president Silvio Berlusconi about which doubts about her former career were canceled after his election. And of course today there are other shadows cast on his private life. " To tell the Literature Festival in Mantua is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, Nadine Gordimer, who earlier had said: "The model of corruption should not be followed either by young people or adults. There are many more examples of corruption, every day, which ultimately end up affecting the sense of honesty of youth. " Corruption has reached even lower levels of the institutions, with the police, which should be one of the guardians against corruption, accepting bribes, but even to remove the fines.
For Nadine Gordimer, "is not a problem that concerns only Italy, the president of South Africa Jacob Zuma was elected before he was taken to court and charged with corruption for accepting money from weapons manufacturers. Not to mention the sex scandals in which he was involved. These are all terrible examples that inspire people negatively. " In the Western world
corruption, press freedom, join the relationship with the other, with immigration and the sense of guilt for the weak, the colonized countries to individuals, leading to poor conflict with each other for the last penny, to the last piece of land. It is a problem in South Africa, with immigration from Zimbabwe, but it is a problem of Europe and Italy of the "rejections", dealing with migration flows coming mainly from Africa.
The South African writer prefers not to speak in detail of Italy, a country where you would live for a while 'to understand the conflicts, the question turns to journalists: "There feel free? You can freely express your concerns? ". In South Africa, despite the many problems and the scandal over weapons of Zuma, "writers and journalists are free to express what they think." For this reason, the South African writer has sent its accession to the Republic: "I signed because I can not tolerate a country in which we can apply a press censorship and where journalists can be pressured. The writers have to fight these situations, have a responsibility. " From the online UinitÃ
0 comments:
Post a Comment