La televisione italiana nella crisi del 1992

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the role of Italian television in the representation of the events of the 1992 crisis. The 1992 «media event» allows us to reconstruct the imaginary created by television in the public opinion; through audiovisual sources such as news programmes and political and journalistic talk shows on Rai and Fininvest channels, we analyse not only the spectacular dimension of the Mani Pulite enquiry, but also the decisive role of television in returning the memory of that year through its omnipresence in the moments of greatest crisis and transition from the First to the Second Republic.

Keywords

• television
• public opinion
• republic
• crisis
• tangentopoli