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i agree, what does the media expect? a spontaneous religious ritual?

everyone within sight to pack up their families and kit and get on a 40° train home?

wtf? sad reality, but the same would have happened if the girls had been from elsewhere. people don't feel educated or equipped to deal with a situation like that, it doesn't mean they're heartless. what would anyone here have done in that situation?

the media has to whip everything into a scandal, when it's undeserved, and conveniently glosses over, or worse, whitewashes things that are really bad.

objective focus on what's really happening to italy, not so much, it takes furriners i guess to report from the outside. no skin off their noses...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 10:04:25 AM EST
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Most of the Italian news that ends up in the English press is based on easy universal categories a person can relate to. Berlusconi is presented as an easy going "flambouyant" success story with some amiable legal hassles.

Real news needs to have its context explained- and most newspapers either do a bad job or simply don't bother.

In the past two days we've had the Tavaroli incrimination, 18 arrests in Reggio Calabria in which Micciché is implicated (who's Micciché?), the Del Turco arrest with all parties involved... How do you explain the Tavaroli case in less than 500 words?

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 11:23:11 AM EST
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How do you explain the Tavaroli case in less than 500 words?

heh, i can only handle so much RAI, i haven't a clue as to what that's about, unless beppe or you clue me in, clueless i remain.

the layers of baroque complexity in italian politics leave me stupefied.

still dealing with the 'davantologia', i'll leave the 'dietrologia' to you experts, the better to eventually decipher...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jul 23rd, 2008 at 07:37:12 PM EST
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