Dell'Utri Case: news yesterday was, today, just a dutiful echo. Tomorrow will be paper, forgotten stuff. The newspapers that told about it, if all goes well, will end up in recycling, and if it goes wrong, in general waste.
'You have to be in the news,' is something that journalists often repeated, is perhaps the first thing a journalist or aspirant should learn this and that, in fact, often learns. But what you learn is not as often as is the news. Take the case of sentence Dell'Utri. The news, by the book, is the condemnation of the Senator - confirmed in part, and modified to some extent - in collusion with the Mafia for the events until 1992. The news, then, is that the appeals court, with this ruling, held that Dell'Utri entertained close relations with the old mafia organizations headed by some gentlemen, a bit naughty, it seems. Such Stefano Bontade, Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, and some Vittorio Mangano (rumor has it that the latter is, however, strive for holiness). All this, mind you, exclusively until 1992.
Well, this is certainly news. That a man, now a senator, and in general has long placed in a strategic position in economic and political life of the Italian State, is the connecting link between the mafia and put it this way, a productive structure of the Italian system, and how if it is news. One could argue that it is not as new news (the ruling of first instance we had already handed over as "guilty"), but there you are ... always news! Then, of course, you must reflect on the decision of those days. The appeals court, in fact, contrary to the provisions of the Palermo court declares the accused not guilty to the offenses charged after 1992 (because "the crime does not exist") and reduced the sentence from nine to seven years.
Yeah, well this is news. And what news! For some (read "Tg1) becomes 'the news' ... well of course, freely interpreted by Minzolini and its clak. Dell'Utri say that, according to professionals of Tg1, has been practically accomplished. "The appeals court did not believe the prosecutor's argument" - are the words of submission - "who had asked for eleven years for Marcello Dell'Utri, was charged with collusion with the Mafia. Seven years, but the events after 1992 Dell'Utri was acquitted. The judges did not believe the statements of regret as Gaspare Spatuzza (...). A construction indictment wiped from the ruling today (June 29, 2010, ed.) A cold shower for the Attorney General Anthony Gatto. " This news of Tg1.
Then there are the comments at the judgment / news. The lawyers argue that the senator with the ruling "the halo of mafia overall political and institutional system of our country from '92 onwards is absolutely obsolete.
"Judgement of Pilate", "sop to the Palermo judges" - is the voice of white Dell'Utri. And he always, the star of the day, echoes the Eroc another pious soul: again, Vittorio Mangano. The man in the odor of sanctity that someone had the audacity to associate the Cosa Nostra, but luckily others have learned to forgive and embrace in their home. It was in fact employed at the Villa Arcore of us who know how to groom, and then put in a position to make his humble and decent job (read: provide a link between the Mafia and the State). In fact someone had the gall to tell us about it, as "one of those characters here, were the bridges and bridgeheads mafia organization in northern Italy." Of course, in this case is just such a Paolo Borsellino to talk ... that credibility can never be compared to that of a judge of such a hero?
Then there Ciancimino son, the day after the ruling, pressing and insists that the words of Dell'Utri Mangano are nothing more than a message to gangsters in jail, a sign to encourage them and invite them to a heroic martyr and clearly not always silent.
And then there is also Pisanu, chairman of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, which, again the day after the ruling, we confirm that, yes, in the period of the massacres of '92-'93 in Italy has been created and he acted "with a tangle of mafia, politics, big business groups and subversive pieces deflected state "and that" the frightening sequence of '92 and '93 did so with a strategy of the mafia and terrorism ", but" produced divergent effects. " On the one hand there was the fear of an imminent coup d'etat "and the other is also made" such an increase of deterrence that led us to reconsider what their choices and take the road dell'inabissamento. "Then, for Luckily he reassures us: "We will investigate," he said.
Here is the news today, to return to our opening speech. The news is that it will investigate. It will investigate if, well, can rest easy.
Oh, I almost forgot. At the end we are there. We note that there. What are outraged. What we wonder how we got to this point and if ever will this eternal fair heroic lies. There is us that we try and not be puppets controlled by a puppeteer, but for now, alas, do not do news.