Post by jameshoff on Mar 14, 2024 3:31:46 GMT
For the second time, on Thursday 2 November, an Italian journalist opened the front page of the New York Times, international edition. He told the story of the end of the story between Giorgia Meloni and Andrea Giambruno. Title: “A breakup reflects how Italy is run”. The same article was also in the American edition of the most prestigious newspaper in the world, “Opinions” section, under the title: “Italy's Prime Minister Broke Up With Her Boyfriend. It's Actually Quite a Big Deal” (The Italian Prime Minister breaks up with her boyfriend. It's actually a big deal.) The journalist is Mattia Ferraresi, editor-in-chief of Domani since its inception (15 September 2020), called by the former Director Stefano Feltri. From Modena, he was a New York correspondent for Il Foglio for ten years and a Nieman fellow at Harvard. He wrote among other things, “Trump Fever. An American phenomenon” (Marsilio, 2016), “Obama.
The irresistible rise of an illusion" (with Martino Cervo, Rubbettino, 2010), "Solitude, the DY Leads dark evil of Western societies" (Einaudi, 2020). GLASS CEILING For the benefit of NYT International readers, Ferraresi begins by saying that Giorgia Meloni “has broken the glass ceiling again. After being the first woman and the first post-fascist leader to become prime minister in Italy, she recently became the first head of government to announce on social media that she dumped her boyfriend." Further: “The entire drama offers a window into the nature of power in Italy, where politics, media and business are toxically intertwined.” He says that it has been written how Meloni considers the publication of Giambruno's off-air footage to be a conspiracy and that the identified culprit is Marina Berlusconi, daughter of the four-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and very influential in Forza Italia, one of the three government forces.
“The Berlusconi family wants to be sure that the government does not interfere in its business interests” and Marina “has harshly criticized the idea of taxing banks' extra profits” (the family controls one, Mediolanum). MACHIAVELLI AND BUNGA BUNGA In the end, Ferraresi reminds us that Italy is the country “not only of Machiavelli, but also of bunga bunga parties and it is not always easy to separate political cunning from sloppiness. Italian public life is an inscrutable game, in which the personal and the political continually overlap and defy logic, an endless labyrinth in which the same people wearing different hats meet." Conclusion with the aphorism from more than a century ago, attributed to the journalist Leo Longanesi: "There will never be a revolution in Italy, because we all know each other". Before the Giambruno case, on June 13, 2023 Ferraresi wrote “Farewell to the Man Who Gave Us Trump” , farewell to the man who gave us Trump. A piece on Berlusconi's death. On the commonalities between the Italian tycoon-turned-politician and the American tycoon-turned-politician: "The two have exorbitant egos, an obsession with TV, a propensity for kitsch furniture and obscene jokes."
The irresistible rise of an illusion" (with Martino Cervo, Rubbettino, 2010), "Solitude, the DY Leads dark evil of Western societies" (Einaudi, 2020). GLASS CEILING For the benefit of NYT International readers, Ferraresi begins by saying that Giorgia Meloni “has broken the glass ceiling again. After being the first woman and the first post-fascist leader to become prime minister in Italy, she recently became the first head of government to announce on social media that she dumped her boyfriend." Further: “The entire drama offers a window into the nature of power in Italy, where politics, media and business are toxically intertwined.” He says that it has been written how Meloni considers the publication of Giambruno's off-air footage to be a conspiracy and that the identified culprit is Marina Berlusconi, daughter of the four-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and very influential in Forza Italia, one of the three government forces.
“The Berlusconi family wants to be sure that the government does not interfere in its business interests” and Marina “has harshly criticized the idea of taxing banks' extra profits” (the family controls one, Mediolanum). MACHIAVELLI AND BUNGA BUNGA In the end, Ferraresi reminds us that Italy is the country “not only of Machiavelli, but also of bunga bunga parties and it is not always easy to separate political cunning from sloppiness. Italian public life is an inscrutable game, in which the personal and the political continually overlap and defy logic, an endless labyrinth in which the same people wearing different hats meet." Conclusion with the aphorism from more than a century ago, attributed to the journalist Leo Longanesi: "There will never be a revolution in Italy, because we all know each other". Before the Giambruno case, on June 13, 2023 Ferraresi wrote “Farewell to the Man Who Gave Us Trump” , farewell to the man who gave us Trump. A piece on Berlusconi's death. On the commonalities between the Italian tycoon-turned-politician and the American tycoon-turned-politician: "The two have exorbitant egos, an obsession with TV, a propensity for kitsch furniture and obscene jokes."