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Anti Mafia Research Paper

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Journalists have been facing off against the mafia for as long as there have been newspapers and people to read them. They are a key component of the metaphoric, anti-mafia cart. This cart, as Leoluca Orlando, an influential politician of the 1980s says, has two wheels: “…one the wheel of social, cultural, and political reform, the other the wheel of police and judicial repression. Only if both move in unison does the cart go forward; if one wheel moves while the other stands still, the cart spins in a circle without advancing,” (Schneider, 2003, p. 160). Unfortunately, the cart does not move in unison very often, which leads to the demise of many journalistic efforts to speak out against the mafia. Journalists are threatened, assaulted, and

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