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Italy, Romas and the Economist

27 November 20073 March 2008 by Mario Alemi

Mario Alemi

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…

The massacre of Erba and Italian media

17 June 20073 March 2008 by Mario Alemi

Mario Alemi

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…

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

17 June 20076 January 2019 by Mario Alemi

Mario Alemi

Quando tre membri di una famiglia furono pugnalate, e lo stesso per altre due persone casualmente in casa, la stampa italiana si lanciò subito sul caso. Pochi pensarono che il massacro avrebbe potuto generare un altro triste spettacolo: i media italiani dare il peggio di sé. Ore 16, 11 dicembre…

Italy and Mafia

12 June 20063 March 2008 by Mario Alemi

Mario Alemi

How Italy, one of the leader countries of Western culture, from Renaissance to Enlightenment, has become a suburb of modern civilization? Do not think that "the only cause is Berlusconi", a media tycoon grown up with dirty seed capital and strong political connections. The responsibility is of the Italian people…

The fight against the Mafia

12 June 20063 March 2008 by Mario Alemi

Mario Alemi

Ma-fi-a, a word of uncertain etymology. It is not only the name of a criminal organization in Sicily, a name extended to many different organizations: Russian Mafia, American Mafia, Japanize Mafia... Althought it is a Sicilian word, is used in the whole southern Italy with another meaning: "To be in…