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Education, demography, economy: Redmont highlights the deeper roots of Italy’s cultural drift and the over-estimated role of trash TV.
Friday, August 23rd, 2019 | Articles | Comments Off on Education, demography, economy: Redmont highlights the deeper roots of Italy’s cultural drift and the over-estimated role of trash TV.
Dennis Redmont is guest columnist for Portuguese leading weekly Expresso: the article analyzes the role of Italy’s trash TV and the advent of populism, which spread like wildfire within the country’s political frame in the past few years.
The blame game is not as clear and simple as it appears to be. The “wild west” private TV and transformation by Silvio Berlusconi remains a superficial explanation.
A stagnant economy, a suffering educational system and a demography making it one of the oldest countries in the world can be found at the root of the problem.
Click here to read the full article in Portuguese.