The paper wars
The Scratches of Damato
Rightly, for heaven's sake, we often complain about the level to which the debate or confrontation – as they say with more subtlety – among politicians has fallen. What do they say about it, and often they give all sorts of things in parliamentary halls. That "slut" shouted in the newspapers by a Northern League supporter – if I remember correctly – to a colleague who has just moved to another party is still fresh off the press. But even we journalists, not yet satisfied with how many copies we have left our newspapers to lose, in fact, simply making them hurt, and sometimes even causing them to close, we do not joke in the race with the politicians who shoots the biggest or dirtiest, thinking about times to be even witty.
I would like to point out Letizia Moratti – the "unfortunate", I would say, who was handily persuaded by her Milanese friends to accept the proposal to be the councilor and vice president of the Lombardy region in times of pandemic – offered today by Fatto Quotidiano to his readers on the front page with the cartoon by Riccardo Mannelli. Which gives her the "Moratti sua", which can be translated on sight or by ear into "his mortacci". But, if the cartoonist's irony was not enough, Marco Travaglio in his editorial-director has distorted the name of Moratti from Letizia to Mestizia. Nice Shot. And thank goodness this sample of wit did not end up running some registry office because I let you imagine what he would have done in the birth certificates and in the packaging of identity cards.
In the same editorial-directorial of the same newspaper we find today Guido Bertolaso, notoriously unwelcome in those parts, demoted to Disguido and the president of the Lombardy region Attilio Fontana, not very welcome himself, generously promoted to Artiglio.
I think Piero Sansonetti is right on the Riformista , obviously not appreciated by the fact and reciprocated, to ask "Marco, are you crazy?". But not for the number of the newspaper that the one was closing while Sansonetti was writing, but for the one already out, in which the director, unfortunately, no longer young than the Giornale Alessandro Sallusti, had been given a "retarded child", managing to make a wrong to both.
No less disheartening is Libero's alleged irony. Who on the front page translated the criticisms of a German newspaper to the former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and to the persistent Minister of Health Roberto Speranza for the management of the pandemic in a colored cartoon in which both are seated, in vigilance or recollection of the proceedings, on a coffin. Mah. These days, then … ..
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-guerre-di-carta/ on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:15:59 +0000.