What is it about?
By analysing selected editorials in the Italian-language newspaper Il Globo (founded in 1959), in the period from 1979 to 1989, this chapter offers a case study that allows us to understand the ethnic press’s reaction to mainstream media reporting of organised crime dealing with such cases as the Donald Mackay murder. This chapter argues that Il Globo opposed “sensationalism” in the Australian press with “negationism”, or rather its liberal progressive variant, and by fighting what it thought to be misguided perceptions of immigration and ethnicities in relation to crime among the general public.
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Why is it important?
How do immigrant communities and minorities “talk back”, if and when they do, to the depictions of them in mainstream media sources in relation to organised crime? One way to know how is through the ethnic press’s editorial commentary.
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This page is a summary of: News Reporting of Italian Organised Crime in Australia: Examining Il Globo’s Editorial Commentary, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43639-1_10.
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