Culpability and exageration of the interpretation of the Red Brigades terrorism by the Italian mass media.

Abstract

In this article the author analyses the way in which the Italian mass media dealt with the issue of the Red Brigades from the beginning of the decade of the seventies and the first half of the eighties. It is possible to perceive how the majority of the Italian journalists made the enormous mistake of undermining the criminal power of the terrorist group during this period and how they placed the armed band ideologically among the neo-fascist groups, although the own members of the brigades declared their loyalty to the Marxism-Leninism many times. The second part of the article deals with the kidnapping and murder of the president of the political party «Democrazia Cristiana», Aldo Moro, and how, during the captivity of the magistrate D’Urso, the Red Brigades tried to use the Italian media for their own criminal purposes.