The Death of the journalism

After a long time of inactivity (I will come back with new comics soon) today I let to speak a visitor of my blog who write me about a news published here one years ago. It seems the facts reported was not exactly, or however they was mangled. It's not a newelty in the journalism nowadays: it's not my duty to make all clear, but it's fair to listen another point of view.
I also masked the names reported in the newspaper article: I think this will not steal anything to intent to report what happens around us.

You can read the original comment in the italian version of the post. I translate it here:

hi, I don't know where to begin from, they talk about my family. my mother is a prostitute from years, a life. For 4 years she prostitute herself with my sister; one year ago on the newspaper they said she was 15, but she was 17. it was not the first time in Reggio Calabria, and unfortunately the boy was not the first to go in jail, they was in France too where other boys went in jail because of them, I can send you the newspaper from Marsille.... it was the same story, I live in Italy as a nurse, I an not in contact with them, I am not able to stop them, they search for men... and that rascals goes in jail. I called her when I read the newspaper, and she told me she was not in a coffin, she was in an office with coffins all around, and she was there, not my 15yo sister. I am sorry because people read the newspaper and become sad, I am sorry to be born in this family, I am sorry for that boy's family who pay for my mother's whole life mistakes, she was always been like this, my father suffered because of her... if you want I have proof of this, I want to talk with a journalist, I can demonstrate with proof... I am worn-out, believe me! Veruska, thanks to have understrand me. I can answer to questions or show proof in any moment if you are interested in it.

Short memories

The last 16th May, I published this strip about the presumed abuses in a school in Rignano Flaminio. Six monhs later, new impulse to the investigation is coming from the web, after some suspects was freed and a book, "I have seen the black man" by journalist Claudio Cerasa, which tells about this case so complicated and delicate. Thay are still discussing if the abuses are real or if the testimony of the children was manipulated by their alarmist parents. As I fear in my strip, in the meanwhile, people have forgotten. Someone else probably not.

Death becomes her

Six months ago I published this comic strip; I repropose it now, with the news which inspired it.

There is everything in this news: pedophilia, prostitution and also necrophilia. If you think this last one is a niche (or loculos) phenomenon, here it is a Google Trends graphics, which compare how much they talk on web about two or more terms; as you can see the difference is not so high. The graphics for Italy has a higher difference: we have to understand if it's because we don't speak too much about necrophilia or we speak to much about pedophilia.

Reggio Calabria, May, 23th 2007 - Two Romanian immigrant was arrested by police because they forced a woman and her 15 y.o. daughter to be prostitute. They are two 33 e 35 y.o. who live in town. The arrest was convalidated by the substitute attorney Francesco Mollace. The 40 y.o. womand and her 15 y.o. daughter was slaved and forced to be prostitute. M. A., 33 y.o., and M. S., 35 y.o., who lived in a hotel in Reggio Calabria, are now in jail. The first is also accused to have forced the 15 y.o. girl and hitted her. The story is also more perverse than the usual. The young girl was forced to have sex in three different coffins with two undertakers and other middle-aged men. The girl, hitted many times when she tried to rebel, was forced to have sex with men of different classes: doctors, lawyers, students, who paid even 300 euros to have sex with her. The woman and the girl will probably have a work now.

(Source: Il Giornale di Calabria)