A service of Strip the news, because in a few minutes our Italian journalist, Giovanna Botteri, ended between Twitter Trends Italy. A vitriolic joke on the TV program and thesent Rai from Beijing is overwhelmed by an avalanche of tweets. The social networks goes crazy and is a clash between those who defend the journalist and those who take the side of the presenter of the satirical news channel 5, Michelle Hunziker. At the center of the debate was the Striscia report in which he made fun of Botteri's look, according to some "not particularly well-groomed", and gave an account of her fresh styling. The question is spontaneous: how important is the look of TV journalists?
Twitter Trends Italy, #bodyshaming or fake
The hashtag #bodyshaming (2449 tweets, data of May 3 at 15.47 pm) ended up among the Twitter Trends Italia. ”Here is an example of fake news. Striscia makes a report for Giovanna Botteri, but many bar commentators… write that we are angry with her ”. . It reads in the Strip note the news who talks about the accusations of "vulgar irony" for the service (aired on April 28, ed) in which reference was made to Botteri's look and how "in the last connection from Beijing she showed off a new hairstyle, as if to deny the malicious criticism rain on it ".
The body shaming risk
From there, to the storm of tweets that broke out on Twitter, the step was short. The charge is of body shaming. Term used today to indicate the criticism via the web or social media, on the physical appearance of people.
"We are talking about serious things and certainly body shaming is and must be fought by all means, but let's not confuse it with a styling", concluded Striscia. Botteri replied on the RAI journalists union website. “I would like the whole story - he writes - to be a moment of real discussion on the relationship with the image that journalists they have or should have a second, no one knows who ".
How important is the look?
On Italian TV we have always been used to seeing well-groomed, well-combed and made-up journalists. The anchorwoman's look is often trendy. The choice of earrings, the color of the jacket or the color of the hair ... Tiziano's red is famous Lili Gruber or his slim black leather jackets that modernized the Rai news.
We move from the classic outfit to the more casual one of the journalists Sky. It is our television. The look, however, must never be prominent to the point of overshadow the skill of our TV journalists which are many and very good. Botteri is certainly one of the best correspondents in Rai history. And she takes care of silencing the voices of those who stop at the look, to “unhinge stupid, anachronistic models”. For the journalist, we must avoid giving credibility to "stupid attacks". "I would be happy if it were an excuse to discuss and discuss about things that are important for us and especially for future generations of women".
