Smash: non ci resta che ridere
Monday December 10th, 2007 | 09:57 am | Uncategorized
The Italian Vips don’t accept humour and are ready to sue the journalists who criticize them. A book about them gives us, at least, a chance to laugh.
Sei top down o bottom up?
Monday November 26th, 2007 | 10:33 pm | Uncategorized
You can stand on the right or on the left of the political circus, but a new dimension is now getting critical. There are people who believe in the political institutions and in the need to improve their functioning in order to control globalisation and others who think that the only useful political activity can be at the local level and that any valid change should come from the bottom. For me it’s obvious that local best practices, national politics, international governance are all necessary. It’s no use to play them one against the other, as if they were different ideologies. But more and more I meet people who are just “top down” or “bottom up”.
Mi chiamo Speroni, mio nonno era mugnaio sull’Olona, però…
Sunday September 30th, 2007 | 07:41 am | Amarcord, Europa, Nord e Sud
About the risk of secession in Italy, my family name, the hurried way in which people read articles on the screen…
Grillo apre la terza fase della comunicazione politica
Sunday September 16th, 2007 | 08:33 am | Uncategorized
There are four reasons behind Beppe Grillo’s V Day success, (“where V stands for a very rude Italian expletive”, explains the International Herald Tribune). Grillo is a very talented comedian; his proposals are very simple (probably too simple); people in Italy are really looking for an alternative to the actual political class; and he knows how to use the mix between virtual interactivity and real encounters of his fans. Probably thanks to him Italy is entering a new phase in the techniques of political communication, where controlling televisions or carrying busloads of people to demonstrate in Rome is not enough to have success.
Basta, avete vinto: c’è una sinistra radicale. Anzi due
Thursday February 22nd, 2007 | 06:02 pm | Uncategorized
Who is “radical” in Italy? The followers of Partito radicale or the former marxist left? The latter is winning the game on the media. But the “radical left” puts together people with very different ideas.
