NEWS/RESEARCH: Children's Issues are seldom on the front page (Italy)

NEWPAPERS: CHILDREN'S ISSUES ARE SELDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE

 

(AGI) - Florence, Oct. 28 - Issues involving children are seldom found on the front page of Italian newspapers. This is what comes out of a report that was presented today on "Children and the Press" carried out by Florence's Osservatorio su Stampa e Minori dell'Istituto degli Innocenti (the Observatory on the Press and Minors of the Innocents' Institute).

In 2003, the report explains, out of the 26 main newspapers (dailies and periodicals) there were 5,949 articles, of these only 291, less than 5 pct, were on the front page. But do they talk about when they talk about children? Issues about education-school-educational services come first (16.5 pct of the total number of articles). They are followed by health and health services (15.1 pct) and children's rights, especially in terms of negated rights (12.1 pct). A bit behind, there are those on violence against minors (9.9 pct), the relationship between minors and mass media (9.5 pct), minors and families (9.4 pct), hardships-deviance (7.5 pct). Lastly, at the lowest levels, cases of children's violent death, the presence of foreign minors in Italy, and abandonment, poverty, and minors' employment. (AGI)

 

SOURCE: http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410281831-1226-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

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