Life in the Living Museum
'Ad Personam' is an expression being bandied around frequently these days in Italy, often with reference to media mogul cum prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in connection with his propensity for making laws which appear to benefit him personally.Well, Italy's ad personam man has been at it … [Read more...]
If you were unaware, which you may be if you are not from Italy, most of the public TV stations here are influenced by Italy's rag tag bunch of political masters. This means that the news is presented in such a way as to support the ruling junta.People are aware of this, especially Antonio Di … [Read more...]
I watched an interesting fly on the wall type documentary the other day entitled 'Tolleranza Zero' - 'Zero Tolerance' (Yes, at times Italian and English are extremely similar).This program was shown on La7, one of Italy's public TV channels, and was about, as you might expect, how the Italian … [Read more...]
I know Mr Bean went down quite well in Italy. Indeed, they still show Mr Bean on TV here. However, what I did not know was that one crazy Italian is actually imitating him!If you click around Arnaldo Mangini's site - this is a good a point as any to 'click-off', you'll find out what I mean. To … [Read more...]
A little while back I was asked to prepare a short two day workshop on how to write a press release in English for the Media Relations master at the business school where I often find myself.After burning copious amounts of that old midnight oil, I came up with such a course.The first time this … [Read more...]
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