Libero (newspaper)
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| description | Italian newspaper |
| language | Italian |
| publishing company | Editorial Libero srl |
| First edition | July 18, 2000 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 194,818 copies |
| Widespread edition | 105,796 copies |
| (December 2011) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Maurizio Belpietro |
| Web link | www.liberoquotidiano.it |
Libero ( Italian for free ) is an Italian daily newspaper . She describes herself as conservative from the basic attitude, but independent and not uncritical. The overwhelming majority of outsiders classify it as strongly right-wing conservative and “ Berlusconi- friendly”.
It was founded on July 18, 2000 by the journalist Vittorio Feltri , who had previously been editor-in-chief of other conservative papers (first at L'Indipendente , then at Il Giornale ). As director (editor-in-chief), Feltri is editor-in-chief of “Libero” and also holds the majority (51%) in the company. The Thomas Migge described him as "one of the most respected journal maker Italy" . The newspaper is based in Milan . The circulation was initially 40,000, currently around 70,000 copies.
The style of the “Libero” is considered to be populist and sensationalist journalism: “ Vittorio Feltri [...] represents one of the most striking examples of this sensation-oriented tendency: he often delivers sarcastic and polemical headlines in order to verbally attack and demoralize his political opponent. “ (Martin Hambückers) One of the“ political opponents ”for the paper is in particular Romano Prodi , Berlusconi's opponent. The Schweizer Tagblatt hinted at the numerous campaigns of “Libero” against Prodi in connection with an affair over the spying on tax data of Italian politicians: “It is noticeable that the“ Libero ”and“ Il Giornale ”published by Berlusconi's brother Paolo are in theirs Campaigns against Prodi with regard to his wealth and income situation were each very well documented. "
Newspaper history
For the Israeli Independence Day ( Yom HaAtzma'ut ) 2003, the “Libero” produced a special edition to show solidarity with the State of Israel. As a supplement, the readers received an Israeli flag. " We try to convey to our readers that the State of Israel really belongs to Europe and the western world [...] I can assure you that the 'Libero' will always stand by Israel." (Renato Farina, then Vice Director - Deputy Editor-in-Chief - Libero)
At the end of December 2003, the “Libero” quoted Silvio Berlusconi from an interview with Renato Farina as saying that a terrorist attack with a hijacked plane on St. Peter's Basilica was planned for Christmas but was prevented. This quote caused a worldwide stir. Berlusconi then denied it, claiming that the interview was never conducted. Editor-in-chief Feltri then stood behind Farina.
In the affair of the kidnapping of Abu Omar, an Egyptian imam at a mosque in Milan, by the US secret service CIA , Farina had to confess that she worked with the Italian military's foreign intelligence service ( SISMI ) and that she was paid for it . Among other things, a falsified dossier had been published in the "Libero", according to which Romano Prodi (at that time the opponent of Silvio Berlusconi's election as Prime Minister) had approved the illegal CIA flights in Europe as President of the EU Commission February 2003 Abu Omar was abducted to Egypt. Farina is now being charged by the Milan public prosecutor's office for aiding and abetting this affair .
On October 28, 2006, the Council of the Journalists' Union (Ordine dei Giornalisti) of Lombardy imposed a twelve-month professional ban on Renato Farina for violating professional ethics . After a letter from Farina to editor-in-chief Feltri had been printed in “Libero”, the council opened another disciplinary procedure on October 16, 2006. The Italian EPP MEP Mario Mauro intervened against both of them on November 15, 2006 at the European Commission.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Migge: Berlusconi fuels fear of terror in Rome. In: Tagesspiegel . December 29, 2003, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Hambückers: Arrivederci Berlusconi. Media-political entanglements in Italy since 1945 , Chapter 2.2 .: Partiality of the press, p. 83. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-89669-572-7
- ↑ Tax espionage affair. Tax data spied on politicians and celebrities in Italy. In: Tagblatt. October 28, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ In an interview with the Israeli daily newspaper " Jedi'ot Acharonot ". Quoted in the Israelnetz newsletter of April 17, 2003
- ↑ Florian Rötzer: The machinations of the Italian secret service Sismi. In: Telepolis. July 8, 2006, accessed on June 15, 2015 : “ In addition, two editors of the right-wing Libero newspaper were commissioned by the secret service to find out the status of the prosecutor's investigation. Evidence of two amounts of money of 2,000 and 5,000 euros was found at Libero editor Renato Farina, which are said to come from Sismi and which Farina signed with his code name as the informant "Betulla". Farina had also published articles fabricated by the secret service, which u. a. should discredit the Berlusconi competitor Prodi, who at that time was still acting as EU Commission President. "
- ↑ CIA action has consequences. In: the daily newspaper . October 9, 2006, accessed July 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Parliamentary Questions, E-4881/06
Web links
- Homepage of the "Libero"
- Thomas Götz: Criticism only on the left. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 19, 2000, accessed June 15, 2015 .