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Thanks for encouragement. I agree with you whole heartedly on dKos. I discovered the site thanks to the Kaufax awards, coupled with my anger over the utter lack of coverage of the Giuliana Sgrena kidnapping. Fortunately I found great reporting there on the Calipari murder by Gilgamesh, Venice Ca, Donna in Roma and many others.

I think SCOOP format has enormous potential. One could create iad hoc nternational investigative teams to target leads for example, something that is becoming increasingly difficult for large news services due to costs. Over the past five years many foreign desks have pulled out of Rome. The coverage here has suffered accordingly.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 04:54:27 AM EST
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"Over the past five years many foreign desks have pulled out of Rome. The coverage here has suffered accordingly."
Is that a bad thing? The less people around the world can see the shameful farce italian politics have become, the better. Look at your (very good and detailed) post: there isn't a single policy item being discussed, it's all about scandals and infighting all over again, with even the (really distasteful) return of state-sponsored dirty ops. Sigh.
by toyg (g.lacava@gmail.com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 07:20:00 AM EST
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I think I understand what you mean, but isn't it the more what goes on is hidden from the outside world, the more freedom there is to cheat, lie, swindle, rig justice and elections, etc? Showing the world what's happening seems to me to be the right thing to do.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 24th, 2006 at 03:02:28 PM EST
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You are absolutely right, I was just reacting to the sad state of things.
by toyg (g.lacava@gmail.com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 06:14:10 AM EST
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