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Italy Chronicles

The Italy You Don't Know

Ad Personam Man

December 2, 2008 by Alex Roe

'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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy News Tagged With: Berlusconi, murdoch, TV

A Cat’s Chance in Hell

July 28, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italian politics Tagged With: TV

Zero Tolerance

June 24, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italian TV Tagged With: Italian, law, police, television, TV

The Italian Version of Mr Bean!

April 18, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funny Tagged With: comedy, Italian, TV

Burnt Midnight Oil

March 26, 2008 by Alex Roe

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Work Tagged With: blog, Italian, journalist, Language, news, Newspapers, teaching, TV, Useful, Writing

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