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that journalists and politicians tell bales is not new. The problem is that they often do so even when - maybe - say they are convinced of the truth.

A typical case is the urban legend 's Degree in Linguistic Mediation of Forli that would only writing, referred to as the proverbial example of the inefficiency of the Italian university.

The legend was born with an article Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella Corriere della Sera on 12 December 2006. The journalists wrote: There is a

Robinson lost on an island university that has not even Forlì un Venerdì con cui parlare: è l'unico iscritto al corso di Scienze della mediazione linguistica. Ma con chi può mediare, se non c'è un selvaggio con cui aprir bocca? Una solitudine da incubo...

A rincarare la dose ci pensa "Il Giornale" il 16 ottobre 2008, quando Matthias Pfaender riprende pari pari la notizia:

[...] al primo gennaio del 2007 il corso di Scienze della mediazione linguistica a Forlì contava un solo iscritto; chissà con chi mediava. Forse con i soli in grado di capire il suo stato d’animo

Di recente, durante e dopo la discussione finale sul Disegno di Legge Gelmini, ci hanno pensato due esponenti della maggioranza parlamentari a dare even more media attention to the matter. Before the deputy

Fabio Rampelli that in his speech to the Chamber of Deputies of December 13, 2010 said:

Indeed, in Forlì, there is a poor man who studies alone linguistic mediation, but with those media, if you own?

The last time in order to use this easy joke was the Minister Giorgia Meloni, who "Porta a Porta" said verbatim, with his innate refinement:

I quote always the case that poor studying linguistic mediation in Forlì and is the only writing. I say " were you alone, but That Shakes tte mean? "

But the doubt that he wrote / said it's nonsense to these ever come? Before you spit to students, faculty and employees are bothered to check? Evidently, no. In fact it is a lie ...

The degree course in intercultural linguistic mediation is part of ' training offer of the School of Modern Languages \u200b\u200bfor Interpreters and Translators, University of Bologna faculty at the educational center for science in Forlì.

is a course where a number of students entering each year 182 students of over 1000 candidates who enroll in the proficiency test. Students attending three years of the course is about 500. Not only that, but it is one of the faculties whose graduates are able to enter first in the world of work (75% within the first year).

So one thing is clear: who wrote the dance for the first time has not verified the data in its possession, and who has repeated the mistake the second time has done worse, giving for granted a fact that had already been demonstrated wrong (after the first publication of the Emilia Romagna regional TG had a service explaining the error), but undoubtedly the worst behavior of the politicians have cited free mocking students, faculty and employees of the faculty ... and citing paper.

The Italian university has certainly huge problems, but some journalists who do not check the news and political talk nonsense, blaming a pretext to those who study hard and even those who work honestly to support its argument, can not claim the right to point the finger.