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...panel on the media, when I observed that Italian journalists seem to write mostly for each other, for politicians, or for the pleasure of reading their own prose, the audience clapped its approval. For much of the following hour, questioners demanded to know why the news wasn't being written for them...
They deserve an answer. Not much has changed in the 50 years since the political journalist Enzo Forcella declared that the Italian newspaper was written for just 1,500 readers: ministers, parliamentarians, party leaders, union bosses and industrialists. News is reported, he wrote, in an "atmosphere of family discussion, with protagonists who have known each other since childhood, exchanging jokes, speaking a language of allusions...
...Testament personage known as the brother of Jesus, both ostensibly the sons of Joseph the carpenter, husband of Mary. If its dates were genuine, the burial box - or ossuary - could well be circumstantial evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, a tenet supported only by gospels and scripture written, at the earliest, a generation after his crucifixion and, of course, by the faith of hundreds of millions through 2,000 years...
...summer filled with justifiable acclaim for “Inglourious Basterds,” another war movie snuck onto the scene and captured audiences with an almost surreal attention to detail rather than with a clever rewrite of history. Written by American journalist Mark Boal, the script for “The Hurt Locker” is based on stories from his time covering a bomb squad in Iraq. Jeremy Renner (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film?...
Palin, Sarah • anniversary of debut on national stage of prompts a less-than-laudatory look back at • father of says book is being written by, and that "she e-mails me quite frequently" with questions like, "How many points did I score here?" or "When did we go to the Boston Marathon?" so said tome promises to thrill connoisseurs of inconsequential details about sports • speaking engagement is accepted by to address a conference of global investors in Hong Kong, but it's not till Sept. 23, so there's still plenty of time to cancel and deny...