Viva Zapatero

It seems that the best solution for the media has been found in Spain.
The problem with the Italian public television was that it was controlled by the politicians. So once Berlusconi was elected because he had brainwashed Italian people onhis private televisions, he started abusing the power he had as a politician on the public television too. Suing people knowing that the law would prove him wrong, but just as a kind of psychological threat. Convincing people on his private channels and newspapers that he was right. And most of all either bribing or threatening, by means of his money and influence, the opposition that would support him both in parliament and in the public television commitees.

The Spanish prime minister Zapatero passed a law some years ago that made public television completely independent from the politicians.
As they say in this documentary, called Viva Zapatero, when the regime falls in Italy and the public television would not be just like another of Berlusconi's private ones, this could be the right idea.
I believe that this could be a way to guarantee a freedom of expression which is real and not just apparent. A television which is not only public but not under the influence if the politicians. And this could lead also to a better democracy, where common people are well informed and able to request from politicians that their needs, freedoms and rights are taken into account as well as those of the rich ones. Because this is what democracy is.

Probably before blaming discourse, (spaking for your own purposes) which is something quite natural, we should blame just the monopoly of discourse and the restricted access to knowledge it causes for those who are excluded from it. The monopoly of rich people who own the private media or of politicians who control the public ones. When many opinions, all being equally really able to be heard, one is really forced to check the facts to know the truth.