AITech-Assinform, Associazione Italiana per l’Information Technology (ma non bastava AITech?), ha presentato a entrambi gli schieramenti politici una proposta di politica industriale per l’IT e la competitività dell’Italia. Un documento di buon senso, che i programmi potrebbero prendere in considerazione, indipendentemente dal colore politico. Più che l’abstract, che trovate qui, vale la pena leggere il documento completo in formato PDF, che trovate qui (è necessaria la registrazione al sito), ricco di considerazioni sui dati economici.

La risposta ce la da il Washington Post:

The real question [...] is how we decide whether one story is more worthy than another. How do we determine the merits of a case? The answer, in my judgment, lies at the heart of newspaper industry’s downward spiral in circulation.

The decision to go with one story rather than another turns on what we in this business consider “newsworthy”. It’s an amorphous term, but editors claim to know it when they see it. Unfortunately, in my view, that decision seems to boil down to what those of us in newsrooms, and not readers, care about.

And there’s the problem. What draws the interest of people in the news business (what they like to read and write about) often bears little relationship to what people who live in communities [...] care about.

And that’s how a single mom in Northeast Washington who disappears from her home, leaving behind all her children and possessions, doesn’t make it into the newspaper.

It’s because someone may have decided that a story like hers, of a woman nobody has ever heard of, won’t have much significance to readers. It’s because someone has concluded that there is nothing out of the ordinary about an adult black single mom walking out on her family. It’s because such behavior is considered commonplace, too routine to warrant precious space.

Certo, è l’opinione di un singolo, ma si tratta di un opinionista di uno dei più autorevoli quotidiani statunitensi. Forse, questo concetto di notizia non è più così attuale… Forse, leggere qualche blog - invece di criticarne l’attendibilità - potrebbe aiutare a rendere più attuale - e vicino al lettore - il concetto di notizia… Forse…

Grazie a Carlo Felice Dalla Pasqua per la segnalazione.