Isn’t there any space on TV for the major international contexts?

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They have not spoken in the Nineties, they have not spoken on the threshold of the New Millennium, still they do not talk about it now, despite the serious upheavals have gone before and are following the declaration of independence of Kosovo, which took place last February 17, on approval of the Parliament of Pristina.

Another invisible conflict, yet a huge disinformation (or more likely a non-information), yet a reality hidden by a few for many, yet a sense of inconsistency and impalpability of events.
Kosovo appears as one of the many ghost wars, destined to oblivion time, an intermittent war where only what is attractive for the media becomes real. Everything else has no significance.

Sporadic events are occasionally brought to light by TV news which simply give some figures (the number of deaths here.. the number of soldiers there..), some names, some places and then, quickly, move on.
Yet today that Kosovo is at the centre of bitter controversies and heated debates. Above all, it’s the image of the country, represented now as "crossroads of evil", now as "new myth", to remain central and yet blurred.
But then, in all this, where are the media? What are they while happens what is really important? If not the information, who or what do they have to allow for?

The television-entertainment can be criticized for the quality of format or for the type of light contents available to the public, but in it, it is the entertainment component is essential compared with the rest and, therefore, some commercial and/or market choices are comprehensible. Something else, however, is the TV-information that should support the news itself, not the show. "Focusing on the news itself" means that there shouldn’t be any other purpose of the information than make who watch and listen abreast of what is happening in the world, regardless of any value judgement.

This, however, even in its conceptual banality, remains an approach concretely unfeasible in Italy (and not only here): too many interests and too business have always been at the base of the function of our media.

Facts, opinions and beliefs are three elements that risks to be continually merged and confused among each other. What is the fact becomes the opinion and the opinion is made widespread belief. This is the perverse mechanism of the contemporary media: playing the relative off as the absolute and to show a face for all the others, making a point of view, the only possible point of view.
That’s for these reasons that, to this day, little can the truth against the hegemony of the frightful Fourth Estate.