San Marino. Case “Giornalesm.com”, Look for information: “It is regrettable that the craving for the scoop can overwhelm common sense”
The Board of Directors of the Information Council cannot refrain from stigmatizing what has happened in recent days.
In particular, it is very serious that a website (Giornalesm.com) which is not a newspaper or periodic publication pursuant to the law in force in the Republic of San Marino, has published health information, disclosing the news of the death of the 16-year-old girl, victim on 21 August of the tragic accident on the Adriatic road, one day before that doctors report the death.
The news, therefore revealed to be untrue and denied by the official communication of the Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, has on the one hand misled people who have expressed their condolences even to their families when the girl was not yet dead, thus adding pain to the ache; on the other hand, it aroused the understandable indignation of many other citizens.
The Consulta deems it regrettable that the craving for the scoop – among other things by a site whose director is not a journalist under the San Marino legislation and with the obvious purpose of arriving first thus channeling clicks and contacts – can overwhelm common sense, delicacy, tact and above all the duty of humanity and respect that must never fail and must prevail, especially in such situations. Principles that journalists and publicists enrolled in the Consultation are well aware of in their professional background through adherence to the Code of Ethics. The Diretti della Consulta therefore announces that it will present generic news reports on the incident and cannot esmerse news, to protect those who have dealt with the drama of the past with professionalism rigorously, from believing it is too much, ingenergo and not well addressed to prudence done through a communicated by the competent Secretary of State.