“There is an evident continuity with what we have already seen in the last twenty -five years”, explains Massimo Scaglioni, Massmediologist and TV critic of Christian family. «From the great crimes of Novi Ligure, Cogne, Avetrana, up to Brembate. All highly mediated cases, told in a thousand ways – podcast, fiction, afternoon and evening talk shows. Garlasco had already had a huge media exposure during the processes, then the interest had dropped after the final sentence. The reopening of the investigations, with the new revelations, has rekindled incredible attention. “
Are there any elements of novelty compared to the past?
«Yes, even if in continuity, new aspects emerge. The first concerns the role of television, which today is much more factual. An example above all: the transmission The hyenaswho touched peaks of over three and a half million spectators, collected the testimony of the man who tells of the sack thrown into the Roggia. It is the result of a long journalistic work and, above all, of an openly innocentist position in favor of stasis. “
A direct involvement therefore, not just news?
“Exact. It is not an absolute novelty – just think of Who saw it – But in this case the role has been even more incisive. And then there is the other fundamental element: the role of social media and their continuous interaction with the TV. The case has turned into a sort of great collective game, where the element of yellow merges with continuous and interactive participation by the public. We can say that Garlasco has turned into a gigantic CLUEDO MEDICAwhere everyone tries to solve the case, improvising investigators. “
On the human level, the tragedy of a girl killed at 26, crystallized in a few images that stand out her big blue eyes, as if it were Laura Mars, remains. There is no risk of losing the sense of reality, to forget that it is a person who has taken his life in the flower of the years, that there are parents imprisoned in continuously awakened atrocious pain, which does not give them peace?
«Yes, and this is precisely one of the most disturbing aspects. The time spent from the tragedy introduces a distance that the media tend to fill by transforming the fact into tale. It has become a Cold Case. Even the Minister of Justice intervenes, by politicalizing the story. Meanwhile, social media explode of comments. And television, which acts like a sponge, collects a lot from those flows. “
Can we speak of an anchillance role of television compared to social networks?
“More than anchillance, I would say mediator. Many content of the evening talk shows come from social media. Criminologists, enthusiasts and even self -styled experts participate in the discussion. In the middle, sometimes, sensible interventions emerge. A form of “collective intelligence” is created, as Massmediologist Henry Jenkins defines it in his theory of convergent culture. We live immersed in a medial environment where TV and social networks are referring to each other. This is exactly what we are experiencing with the Garlasco case, in which television still has a journalistic filter role. “
Is this interview also part of that dynamic?
“Surely. Precisely for this reason I underline the two elements of novelty: the role inappropriate TV and that of social media. In this convergent environment, they feed each other with a continuous reference. “
Like a game of mirrors that are reflected indefinitely. Can you do some examples?
«Two emblematic cases: the service of The hyenas With the interview with the witness and the comparison in the barracks between Stasi and one of the Kappa sisters. That scene was relaunched by TV, then dismembered, analyzed and reworked on social media. Each becomes a small criminologist. Reminded me CLUEDOwhere everyone exercises to identify killer, crime and motive weapon. “
From an ethical point of view, you risk a sink.
«Bruno Vespa, with his broadcasts, was a precursor of this mix between traditional and social media. Today, however, there is an explosion of content: on the one hand the huge amount of material produced daily on social media, on the other the numbers of the television audience. Beyond The hyenasThere are Who saw itNuzzi, Giletti, Porro … Giletti even made record of listening, overcoming the million. “
All this adds shreds of truth?
«The material is overabundant: we move from the sentence of condemnation to the hypotheses of satanic slopes. There is everything. In this encyclopedic narrative, perhaps some element of truth emerges, but makes a huge effort to make its way. The point is that everything takes place live. It is like living a TV series in real time, with continuous twists. But unlike the fiction, there is still no definitive sentence here. It is a serial narrative, almost as a soap judicial work. “
And the real protagonists are back on it.
“Certain. Stasi’s condemnation appears increasingly questionable. He was the first to suffer one media monstrification devastating. The same fate risks touching on all the innocent involved, until it emerges what really happened in that villa. “
