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Italian Media Didn't Give Full Story of Migration in 2016

The Italian media didn’t talk often about migration in 2016, doing so only through politicians and institutional representatives. Only in a very few cases were migrants’ voices given airtime. A new report also finds...

by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
Protest organized by the Refugee Action Collective on July 9, 2011, outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation.

The Italian media didn’t talk often about migration in 2016, doing so only through politicians and institutional representatives. Only in a very few cases were migrants’ voices given airtime. A new report also finds that a lot of attention was given to the arrival of migrants in Italy but not to their journey or what happens next. Hate speech is mostly present on social media; however, Giovanni Maria Bellu, president of Associazione Carta di Roma, used the presentation of their report to remind people that hate speech often comes from bad information by mainstream media.

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