Speaking of, here's a quick update of what's been going on in pizzaland since an ex-mafia goon turned government witness said that Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano has two months left to live. Last night, Saviano appeared on a talk show devoted entirely to him and announced that he was leaving Italy because he's sick of all this shit. This morning most of the papers opened with some sort of Saviano-related headline on the frontpage while the Italian stock market plummeted six percent in one day. Then our president (yes, we've got one) Giorgio Napolitano wrote an open letter to Roberto, begging him to stay, declaring "your threat is all of ours." Obviously we have never been in this position, but we think, with all due deference to Saviano's courage and fortitude, an acceptable reply would have been, "Ummm, no it isn't."But NOW another informant is claiming that there never was a "dead by Christmas" plot, which would indicate that the whole thing is a publicity stunt to whip up interest for Saviano's TV appearance, which would be supremely fucked. But wait! Remember in the interview we did with him where he was talking about how the Camorra never goes after any target who's really popular? What if it is a publicity stunt, but instead of just trying to get people to see the awesome Gomorrah movie, his publicists realized that they needed to get him on TV to protect him from the real mafia threat he faces, so they made up the bomb story? In that case it would be like the first-ever instance of PR connivery being put to a directly noble purpose. OH SHIT, but wait, remember in that other part where he talks about how the Camorra are too smart to kill judges or politicians, so they just discredit them in the press? What if it's THEM who planted the story, and the whole aim is to make the country hate him for faking the bomb threat for publicity? Then they can kill him whenever they want!We have no idea which side's on the level with this, all we know is this is easily the most excited we've been about the national media since Mussolini's granddaughter posed for Italian Playboy.TIM SMALL
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Speaking of, here's a quick update of what's been going on in pizzaland since an ex-mafia goon turned government witness said that Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano has two months left to live. Last night, Saviano appeared on a talk show devoted entirely to him and announced that he was leaving Italy because he's sick of all this shit. This morning most of the papers opened with some sort of Saviano-related headline on the frontpage while the Italian stock market plummeted six percent in one day. Then our president (yes, we've got one) Giorgio Napolitano wrote an open letter to Roberto, begging him to stay, declaring "your threat is all of ours." Obviously we have never been in this position, but we think, with all due deference to Saviano's courage and fortitude, an acceptable reply would have been, "Ummm, no it isn't."But NOW another informant is claiming that there never was a "dead by Christmas" plot, which would indicate that the whole thing is a publicity stunt to whip up interest for Saviano's TV appearance, which would be supremely fucked. But wait! Remember in the interview we did with him where he was talking about how the Camorra never goes after any target who's really popular? What if it is a publicity stunt, but instead of just trying to get people to see the awesome Gomorrah movie, his publicists realized that they needed to get him on TV to protect him from the real mafia threat he faces, so they made up the bomb story? In that case it would be like the first-ever instance of PR connivery being put to a directly noble purpose. OH SHIT, but wait, remember in that other part where he talks about how the Camorra are too smart to kill judges or politicians, so they just discredit them in the press? What if it's THEM who planted the story, and the whole aim is to make the country hate him for faking the bomb threat for publicity? Then they can kill him whenever they want!We have no idea which side's on the level with this, all we know is this is easily the most excited we've been about the national media since Mussolini's granddaughter posed for Italian Playboy.TIM SMALL