![]() ![]() How do we process the overload? The implication is that we can't. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition, you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc - so news drowns in a great sea of information.”Īlthough Numero Zero takes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait. Or this: “The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. ![]() It’s hard, in our age of media consolidation and corporate ownership, not to read that exchange without a little shiver, a little chill. he’s our majority shareholder, as they say.” “You’re saying we have to check whether or not the Commendatore is going to like each article?” a character asks Domani’s editor, an amiable hack named Simei. ![]() Indeed, news itself is not the issue rather, power is. What Eco is saying is that it doesn’t matter, particularly, what the truth is, that this is not why people turn to news. ![]()
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