Mario Giordano
Mario Giordano | |
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.jpg) Giordano (2007) in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna | |
| Born | Mario Giordano 19 June 1966 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, television presenter |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Mario Giordano (born 19 June 1966) is an Italian journalist and writer. He received several disciplinary sanctions, and has been sued for racism and racial hate speech. He is known to be one of the most controversial journalists in the Italian right-wing media sphere and for his sensationalistic style in his television shows.
Biography
Giordano was born in Alessandria, Italy. He started his career as journalist writing for some local weekly and daily publications, as the Catholic weekly publication "Nostro tempo" in 1994, then in 1996 he moved to il Giornale as editorialist.[1] Since 1997 he has appeared in some talk shows and debate programmes on RAI as commentator with the journalist Gad Lerner.[1]
From 2000 to 2007 Giordano was editor in chief of Studio Aperto news program on television channel Italia 1.[1] From 2007 to 2009 he was editor in chief of il Giornale, replacing Maurizio Belpietro.[1] He then returned to Mediaset as director of Mediaset News (2009–10). In 2011 he moved to management of Mediaset All-News TGcom24. In 2013 he directed the "Videonews" sector. In 2014 he was appointed as director of TG4 and in 2018 he was appointed head of "Strategies and Development of Mediaset information".[1] As a journalist, after writing for Libero, he currently writes for Belpietro's "La Verità".[1]
Since 2018 he has led the program "Fuori dal coro" on Rete 4.[1]
Sanctions and complaints
Mario Giordano was subject to various disciplinary sanctions by the professional order association Ordine dei Giornalisti ("Order of Journalists"), including:
- In December 2008, Giordano, as director of il Giornale, «violated the regulation on the obligation of rectification, even without rectifying, even in the absence of a specific request, the information that after their dissemination has proved to be inaccurate or incorrect, especially when the error could damage individual persons, associations or communities».[2]
- In October 2009, Giordano, as director of il Giornale, «omitted the control, and therefore allowed the publication, of the counterfeit photographs appeared on il Giornale with the obvious addition of elements not originally present in the original work of the photographer».[3]
- In March 2015, Giordano is sued by the entrepreneur Massimo Ferrero for mentioning the latter in the book titled Pescecani with regard to the Bankruptcy fraud of Livingston Energy Flight company.[4]
Disciplinary and legal proceeding for racism and racial hate speech
- In May 2016, Giordano and his colleague Maurizio Belpietro spread racial hatred against the Romani people with «xenophobe and racist intent». This is due to an article in which they accused some Romani of robbery, attributing bad characterization to the whole ethnic group. It turned out that those responsible were not Romani.[5]
- In 2020, Giordano and his colleague Vittorio Feltri spread racial hatred against the southerner Italians, again, with «xenophobe and racist intent». In this occasion Mario Giordano was subject to a further disciplinary sanctions by the professional order association Ordine dei Giornalisti ("Order of Journalists").[6][7][8][9].
- In 2020, Giordano was sued by the Naples City Council for racism and racial hate speech.[10][11][12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Giordano, Mario". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Mario Giordano (professionista): censura per mancata rettifica in seguito a notizie pubblicate inesatte (Mario Giordano (professional): censure for failure to rectify following inexact news reports)". Ordine dei Giornalisti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Mario Giordano (professionista): avvertimento per violazione Carta dei Doveri del giornalista (Mario Giordano (professional): warning for violation of the Journalist's Bill of Duties)". Ordine dei Giornalisti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Zappatore, Germana (23 October 2019). "Mario Giordano: età, vita privata, carriera, programmi tv, querele" (in Italian). Likelab S.R.L.
- ^ "L'ORDINE DEI GIORNALISTI CONDANNA BELPIETRO E GIORDANO: INTENTO XENOFOBO E RAZZISTA (ORDER OF JOURNALISTS CONDEMN BELPIETRO AND GIORDANO: XENOFOBE AND RACIST INTENT)". Famiglia Cristiana (in Italian). 25 May 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ "Quando Mario Giordano è stato sanzionato e censurato dall'Ordine dei Giornalisti" (in Italian). REBEL MAG. 23 March 2021.
- ^ Fabbri, Niccolò (3 November 2020). "Mario Giordano censurato dall'Ordine dei giornalisti della Lombardia" (in Italian).
- ^ "Quando Mario Giordano è stato sanzionato e censurato dall'Ordine dei Giornalisti" (in Italian). REBEL MAG. 23 March 2021.
- ^ Pasta, Stefano (20 May 2016). "L'ORDINE DEI GIORNALISTI CONDANNA BELPIETRO E GIORDANO: INTENTO XENOFOBO E RAZZISTA" (in Italian). Periodici San Paolo S.r.l.
- ^ "Napoli, De Magistris querela Vittorio Feltri e Mario Giordano" (in Italian). RCS Mediagroup S.p.a. 30 April 2020.
- ^ "De Magistris: "Il Comune di Napoli querela Feltri e Giordano!"" (in Italian). Napoli Village. 1 May 2020.
- ^ Vigneri, Marta (2 May 2020). "Il comune di Napoli querela Feltri e Giordano per istigazione all'odio razziale" (in Italian). The Post Internazionale S.r.l.
External links
- Articles written on il Giornale (in Italian)
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