The convulsive tarantellas of the newspapers on the Pope and the government
What the newspapers wrote about the Pope's health and the state of the government. Damato's Scratches
Faced with the comforting news of the Pope's return to the Vatican to be "today in the square for the Palms", as Avvenire headlined, in the editorial staff of Corriere della Sera , the most widely circulated Italian newspaper, where a "shadow Conclave" was announced for preparing the succession, they thought they could get away with the irony of a cartoon by Emilio Giannelli. The "brother cardinals", as Francis calls them I don't know if more generously or sarcastically, have gone from applause at the news of the Pope's "resignation" to sadness for the clarification of his resignation yes, na "from the hospital".
For once, you can laugh or smile, as you prefer, without embarrassment and even less scandal for the daily "malice" of Fatto Quotidiano . Who, referring to the Pontiff's words about the hospitalization suffered "without having been afraid", instead attributes it to him for "the return to the Vatican". Where "crows" flutter, to quote the newspaper .
Irony or sarcasm aside, between texts, titles and cartoons, it is perhaps appropriate to participate in the holy or passion week by not making the skins but a real process of information, which frankly contends with politics, which it also puts in cross with sermons and attacks, the daily rush to approximation, forcing, exasperation, plots and so on.
To get out of the walls of the Vatican and its surroundings, today we read on the front pages of almost all the newspapers of the "openings" in Brussels to the requests or expectations of the Italian government to update, modify and whatever else, without penalties, the recovery plan and resilience due to the delays accumulated in the execution and the complications that have arisen with inflation and the increase in costs, as well as due to the old, sclerotic deficiencies of the public administration, central and even more local. Yet just the day before yesterday it was not known which newspaper to believe more between those who painted a Meloni rushing to Colle, having lunch with Mattarella, to ask for and obtain help from him, given his good personal relations at European level, and those who instead painted a I don't know if Mattarella is more "alarmed", according to the Republic, or "worried", according to the Press, or eager to literally spank the premier, according to the cartoonish fantasy of the Fatto .
One reads in the newspapers of the new, furiously "radical" Carlo De Benedetti who, speaking in Modena with the secretary of the Pd Elly Schelin, calls Giorgia Meloni "insane" and rightly runs to read his new newspaper, Domani , to find out more. But it does not find confirmation, perhaps due to a self-imposed censorship by the publisher or applied to him ex officio by the editorial staff aware of the excessive "radicality" boasted by the interested party in a very recently published book. The maximum to which Domani has allowed De Benedetti to go is the denunciation of "an incompetent and ignorant government": the least, I would say, to be expected from a force or a man of unprecedented opposition.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-convulse-tarantelle-dei-giornali-su-papa-e-governo/ on Sun, 02 Apr 2023 06:46:11 +0000.