Fourth Estate

Within less than one year, Italy dropped from 41st to 58th position in the World Press Freedom Index based on the ranking compiled and published annually by the French non-governmental organisation Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders).

Ayshia Taşkın, How Do You Draw A Line Under Pressure?, 2019–2020. Courtesy of WikiArt.

On the Bottom

As of 2020 and 2021, Italy ranked 41st in the World Press Freedom Index, compiled and published annually by the French non-governmental organisation Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders), among the lowest in Europe.

Alfred Freddy Krūppa, Censorship (Reductivism revisited), 2013. Courtesy of WikiArt.

Never trust a doctor who tells you you’re dead

Alighiero Noschese’s memorable imitation of Italian TV journalist Mario Pastore. In the sketch, the news program is all but over, as after receiving his television director’s phone call, Pastore must sadly whisper: “I was told everything I said is not true”.