Making money with water –Quantum of solace

Finally, an enlightened and perverse mind has found the way to become shamefully rich in the water industry. After three months in the US, interviewing executives and analysts from the water industry, I begun wondering if there was anybody out there happy with what so many people call “the blue gold”.
Really, is there anybody getting […]

The Future of TV and the Italian cusine

I was wondering –why all Italian men in their 30s (or beginning 40s) are so familiar with cleaning products, food products, different kinds of brooms (il mocio vileda!), toilette paper and so on?
Then I understood why: we have to thank Silvio Berlusconi and the introduction of private TV channels in Italy in the late 1970s.
Movies […]

Torbons - CERN, Geneva 1999

Torbons, the secret of my success. Filmed at CERN in 1999 with a Super8 camera. For those who did not ask for it yet – the actual film is not on sale.
TORBONS

Italy, Romas and the Economist

The Economist wrote a very nice article about the decree made by Romano Prodi, the Italian head of government. It seems that Mr Prodi, followed by his designed heir Walter Veltroni, had to satisfy the appalling drift towards populism of Italian politics. Then, after the murder of a woman in Rome was allegedly linked to […]

The massacre of Erba and Italian media

When three members of a family where stabbed to death, and so were two other people in the house, the Italian press smelled the blood and slung itself on to it. Nobody thought the massacre could have generated another horrible spectacle: Italian media giving the worst out of themselves. The coverage of a massacre was […]

Il massacro di Erba e il massacro dell’informazione in Italia

Lunedi` 18 giugno (domani) Canale 5 trasmettera` una docufiction sul massacro di Erba. Quando tre membri di una famiglia furono pugnalate, e lo stesso per altre due persone casualmente in casa, la stampa italiana si lancio` subito sul caso. Pochi pensarono che il massacro avrebbe potuto generare un altro triste spettacolo: i media italiani dare […]

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