Stories and News

Stories and News No. 292 Last night Italian political talk show Annozero has shown once again what kind of people are governing my country. While I saw an angry and foaming at the mouth middle-aged man ranting against a guy that could even be his son – I do not wish him that, and I remembered for a split second that he was the Italy Minister of Defense , I immediately felt the desire not only to be in another part of the world, but in another time too. So I imagined me twenty years in the future, watching with my kids a terrible video of one of the worst periods of our history and hearing their question: "Daddy, how did you send such man to the government?" The thing that gnaws at me is that I will endlessly repeat that I have always voted against. For him it was my government, as it happens today in the rest of the world. Well, I think that the wise sofa’s teachers may know why so many people are mad here… The Story: Once upon a time there was a fascist and a coward. The...

Stories and News No. 248 I just learned that the Rai General Director Mauro Masi - which inspired the character jealous of his glass yesterday I wrote about, has asked his lawyers to sue The Manifesto , a traditionally Left Newspaper. The object of the scandal would apparently be a satirical cartoon by Vauro , depicting the Masi practically camouflaged as Ivan Bogdanov , referred to be leader of the Serbian mob, which prevented the last soccer game of Italia national team. The text of the cartoon is divided in two parts: The Serbian ultras who made suspend the game at Marassi Stadium was arrested and Wanted the ultras servant who made suspend Annozero Rai (The director Masi has ordered the suspension of Annozero’s host, Michele Santoro). Now, trust me, I did not see where the offense is. On the glass , I saw the logic. Let's be honest: we all love our glasses and those who deny consciously lie. But in this case, I can not understand why Rai director is so much angry to sue. I...

Stories and News No. 186 " Minzolini’s Tg1 is not bad, that's what I watch if I want to be sure of being informed in a reasonably correct way. " This striking observation was made by the Vice Minister for Economic Development with responsibility for Communications , Paolo Romani . The latter, not satisfied, among other things would have briefly added: " Serena Dandini is worse than Michele Santoro; Tg3 makes damages for thirty minutes and RAI News 24 for twenty-four hours a day. " However, while these may be stored as foreseeable reviews by a detractor of those programs and TV journalists, the first statement interests me. How does a vice minister with responsibility for communications, facing the most factious TV News in the history of Italian television , may say such a thing? Well, I have discovered what arcane process can make someone have the face to express this incredible point of view... The Story: Take a man as many, for example named Paul. I’m talk...

Stories and News No. 176 Among the topics discussed today by Italian bloggers is certainly the alleged compensation of 10 million euros that journalist Michele Santoro should get to finish his contract with RAI . I say alleged because, as Santoro says in a message on the talk show web site, the agreement has not yet been signed and I believe we must give final opinions only after this. Nevertheless, you know, my country is a land of fans and spectators. Someone, the founder of Gogol , has understood better than anyone in Italy. And so the italic web is mainly divided between citizens outraged by the sold paladin and stoically loyal friends of their hero, no ifs or buts. Yet, I have a Hamlet-like question: Who is most contradictory? The brave Santoro who get the money or the bankruptcy Rai that gives him, to close his talk show which (thanks to sponsors and advertisements) in recent years made earn much more than ten million? The Story: Once upon a time there was a football tea...