Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: NYT sul caso Papi

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/an-italian-newspaper-presses-berlusconi-to-answer-questions-on-a-young-friend/?scp=2&sq=berlusconi&st=cse
May 29, 2009, 1:15 pm
Newspaper Presses Berlusconi to Answer Questions About Young Friend
By Robert Mackey
Repubblica.it A video report from the Web site of the Italian newspaper La 
Repubblica, explaining, in English, what Italians are calling "the Noemi 
case," which has raised questions about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's 
relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model.
As my colleague Rachel Donadio writes in today's Times, La Repubblica, the 
Italian newspaper that first reported that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 
of Italy had some sort of relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model 
named Noemi Letizia, has been pressing Mr. Berlusconi to explain the nature 
of that relationship. The newspaper republishes the 10 questions it wants 
the Italian leader to answer in print every day and has posted them online, 
in English as well as Italian.
La Repubblica has also produced two Web videos as part of its campaign to 
get Mr. Berlusconi to answer its questions. The video above lays out the 
background of the story (in English) and documents Mr. Berlusconi's 
inconsistent statements over the past month on how he came to be at Ms. 
Letizia's 18th birthday party.
The second video, embedded below, features an interview with Ms. Letizia's 
ex-boyfriend, who claims that Mr. Berlusconi first called her one day after 
seeing her photograph in a modeling agency catalogue:
Repubblica.it A video report from the Web site of the Italian newspaper La 
Repubblica.
The editor of La Repubblica, Ezio Mauro, says that, despite Mr. Berlusconi's 
refusal to provide the newspaper with answers, "we will continue, however, 
to ask - just as if we were a normal country."
Ciro Fusco/European Pressphoto Agency Noemi Letizia, this week in Naples, 
Italy.
Ms. Letizia told the Italian media that she would like to be on television, 
or perhaps run for office. Footage from Italian television, included in a 
report by Britain's Channel 4 News this week (embedded below), illustrates 
that there is a very thin line between entertainment and politics in Mr. 
Berlusconi's Italy. The country's most popular television program, on a 
channel owned by Mr. Berlusconi, is a news review that features dancing 
girls in bikinis.
One of the candidates Mr. Berlusconi's party has put forward for an upcoming 
election for the European Parliament is Barbara Matera, a former Miss Italy 
contestant and television star. As my colleague Celestine Bohlen has 
reported, Mr. Berlusconi's minister of equal opportunity is Mara Carfagna, 
another former Miss Italy contestant whose resume also includes experience 
as a topless model and as a showgirl on one of the prime minister's 
television stations.
In other words, imagine a world in which Donald Trump owns NBC and lives in 
the White House, while grooming Miss California USA to run for Congress, and 
you may be half way to understanding Italian politics.

 By Robert Mackey
La famosa pornostar e ex deputata dei radicali ha cominciato a dare i
numeri. E si � messa a dare i voti ai politici di casa nostra.
Casini si merita un bel dieci: � bello e simpatico.
Rutelli anche lui � simpatico, ma ultimamente lo trova un po' troppo
invecchiato.
Bertinotti ha la faccia simpatica.
D'Alema invece non le piace proprio: saranno quei suoi baffetti.
Prodi � divertente.
Cicciolina ha un'opinione chiara di tutti i politici del momento. In una
lunga intervista a News settimanale ha raccontato le sue impressioni sugli
uomini che governano il nostro paese.
Impressioni e racconti divertenti.
Su Silvio Berlusconi, Cicciolina ha raccontato una storiella. Quando Silvio
era ancora un imprenditore e non possedeva le sue televisioni, i due si
erano concessi una gita domenicale su un'isola greca. Assieme alla coppia
anche alcuni amici. "Era bello e affascinante, allegro e divertente, aveva
molti capelli". Poi, per evitare equivoci ha affermato: era il 1974, credo
non conoscesse ancora Veronica.
http://www.haisentito.it/articolo/cicciolina-da-voti/710/