Il mio personale omaggio a Travaglio, sul quotidiano ‘modello’ del Fatto

Dopo la trionfale serata alla Metropolitan University di Londra, a cui hanno partecipato tra gli altri anche Stefano Citati (redattore capo degli esteri) e John Prideaux, autore del reportage dell’Economist ‘The man who screwed an entire country’, pure l’Independent pubblica un piccolo omaggio a Marco Travaglio e al giornale che lui stesso ha co-fondato ispirandosi (?)  al quotidiano inglese. Con la grafica del Sun, purtroppo.

Across the world, if you are a politician and you get routed in two consecutive rounds of elections, you’ve got only yourself to blame – or indeed, the opposition for having done their job properly.
Silvio Berlusconi, on the other hand, held the media responsible when acknowledging his defeat in last month’s local elections. To be precise, he had just a two journalists in mind – one of them Marco Travaglio, who has been Berlusconi’s nightmare for more than a decade.

In September 2009, Travaglio founded a paper free from party political bias (ring a bell?) to better express his views against the Italian establishment. This week, he made a visit in London to take part in the debate entitled ‘Italians are better than their Prime Minister,’ which was organised jointly by London MET and Travaglio’s newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano (‘The Daily fact’).

Travaglio’s journalistic career first kicked off with the help of late Indro Montanelli, former director of Il Giornale, a paper owned by Berlusconi’s family. Montanelli, revered as the father of Italian modern journalism, eventually resigned from Il Giornale in 1994, the year Berlusconi entered politics leaving his entrepreneurial career behind. Despite being a well-know right-winger, Montanelli justified his decision of leaving the paper’s direction by saying that he “did not feel like having the vocation of a servant.”

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