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[Autom. eng. transl.] In the maze of the hermeneutics of Nietzsche's thought there is still a chapter dedicated to the critical reconstruction of his reflection on the modern press. Going through his published works, the posthumous fragments and his correspondence, one can see how the heated diatribe against the newspapers accompanies him in all the ages of his life. Journalism never leaves its polemical viewfinder, representing a real socio-cultural problem for him. Nietzsche proves to be an attentive observer of the influence of newspapers on the culture and society of his time, oscillating between theoretical considerations on the relationship between culture and journalism and more concrete phenomenological observations about the influence of the media on the daily lives of his contemporaries. A battle that lasted an entire life, unfortunately sedimented in a quantitatively limited material and full of personal grudges. All that Nietzsche has left us on the world of newspapers is scattered in short passages, with an almost always exaggerated tone. This fragmentary nature and this pathos, however, become the only path to follow to try to reconstruct the Nietzschean controversy towards the print media. Fleeting brushstrokes from which the image of a Nietzsche seems to emerge well aware that the experience of modernity often matches the experience of newspapers. From a posthumous fragment of the years 1875-1876, it even comes to light as "press" was one of the "themes" for those "new" out of date "which, according to the original project never completed, Nietzsche should have added to the four already In circulation. Perhaps at that moment he lacked the time, or he preferred to devote himself to something else. The fact is that, even if you never get to know what he wanted to write in this pamphlet ever made, you can be sure of one thing: Nietzsche carefully observes the daily life of modern men, reflecting on the role of the press and newspapers in extremely sensitive way. His outdated criticism is a mirror of modernity that gives us back a lively "phenomenological cross-section" of a fundamental aspect of that era, which is still current and problematic today.