San Marino. Constructive journalism and media
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The COVID 19 epidemic has created local and global immobility, because for the first time in the history of mankind, a ban on having relationships was imposed, an imposition which, based on the protection of public health, produced its effects of inertia, understood as a state of inactivity in many human activities. With the subsequent authorization to resume personal contacts and not only remotely, also in our Republic we perceive the signs of a revival of vitality.
Vitality of political forces
I am interested in concentrating on the vitality that the political forces of San Marino currently show, that is, the ability to elaborate political lines, guidelines and solutions to problems and critical issues on the various fronts, the institutional, social, economic and even existential ones. The list that follows may not be exhaustive, because the sources of information are public positions in the media, public meetings, some personal contacts, but certainly not the direct knowledge of the operation of political forces, that is, the ones with which they form their modalities. decision-making process and the democratic method of forming the decisions themselves.
Tomorrow Motus Liberi has as its strong point the programmatic initiative “San Marino 20” which it identifies as a development project of the country, but which it sees not shared by the majority itself and this aspect highlights it.
Free: from 19-20 November 2021 it elaborated a program that from that date has remained an elaboration and a project with no immediate possibility of implementation.
Movimento Rete wants to talk to RETE DESK about economic policy, focusing on foreign investments, internal skills and development plans. He asks the population for active collaboration.
Repubblica Futura: analyzes and highlights the activities and human resources present in the area on the themes of poverty and inequalities inequalities and in parallel entrepreneurship and related opportunities.
In addition to internal training, the young Christian Democrats study the sustainability of the foreign public debt and the possible development paths of the country system.
NPR Group: pushes for the conclusion of the Association to Europe negotiations because it sees integration to the single market as the possible solution to the country’s current problems.
Demos: the most recent political grouping, after its public presentation, is elaborating political lines of intervention.
In the summary of the exposition, I understand that the country system, even if small in size, can be defined as a complex system. I would like to know how the Nobel Prize in physics, prof. Giorgio Parisi, on the theory of complex systems and chaotic expert, can give us a management for a state of equilibrium. I would not mind having his help on the method and his advice in this regard. But pending this perspective, I propose to fly low and draw some more ideas from the reality of the country system. The idea is to involve the fourth power: the press, the media and even social media. Use them as a vehicle for ideas.
Hence the proposal of constructive journalism and constructive use of the media.
The Constructive Journal
In the context of the press and local media, in order to produce quality writings, “dynamics of listening to the community, knowledge of the territory and in parallel of public and private events must be activated.” Why this new way of thinking? San Marino citizens should be offered new spaces and new opportunities to live, tools should be created to make institutions and political representatives and parties speak out, to express their needs, theirs, their projects to promote same institutions and political forces to listen and consequently move by developing political lines and solutions to critical issues and needs. Then work with the bottom-up method and vice versa.
Local newspapers, so critical, often in an unjustified way due to their function of reporting and an instrument of opinion, in addition to the role of criticism and denunciation, are asked to open the page of the CONSTRUCTIVE MEDIA. A style of journalism and subjective contributions that present ideas, projects, solutions that not only say what can be done, but how it should be done and why. The above has as its vision a constructive use of the media, a commitment of journalists and the citizens themselves to the constructive page of the newspapers to give useful information on how the community can improve the way of dealing with important problems. Political forces, institutions have the freedom to listen, the freedom to investigate, the freedom to act. At the same time, the local press and the media assume the social role of being the collector of the needs of the community, the will to participate and transparency. A new social role of great impact for local media.
Examples to understand each other: photovoltaics.
As part of the energy emergency, public events have made us understand that in San Marino there is a group of enthusiasts, operators and experts on the subject of photovoltaics (Renewable Energy Association). Their visibility through the constructive pages of the media should urge the attention of decision makers to take them into account with respect to the solution of ignoring the fact. This is just a modest and free example of what can be done. There are many other opportunities and ideas.
It is time for those directly responsible to say whether to welcome the edi to start launching the trial proposal on their newspapers. For citizens to make their voices heard, to make a change known and observed in the right direction. To public decision makers to listen and act.