Tag archive for Berlusconi (RSS)

Francisco Camps vs Fèlix Millet in the media

Posted: October 5th 2009 13:13. Last modified: October 5th 2009 13:24

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El PaĂ­s, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, PĂşblico, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Posted: June 5th 2009 13:21. Last modified: June 6th 2009 21:43

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Nationalism and the European elections, Berlusconi and the intra-Mediterranean risorgimento

Posted: June 1st 2009 11:37. Last modified: June 1st 2009 11:45

Link love for 01/06/2009.

Link sink for 30/05/2009

Posted: May 30th 2009 11:54. Last modified: May 30th 2009 11:55

Mid-20th century Ibero-American hits, state-controlled media, the personal and the public.

The fundamental difference between Mussolini and Berlusconi

Posted: April 3rd 2009 12:09. Last modified: April 3rd 2009 12:12

Is Silvio a cyborg?

A dangerous lack of a sense of his own absurdity

Posted: November 14th 2008 12:48. Last modified: November 14th 2008 12:52

I know a quite considerable number of clever, balanced Italians, and I also believe that there are millions more out there. Tragically none of them seem to show the slightest inclination to get involved in their country’s political process, which is left to people like Berlusconi, who, while not a new class of JosĂ© Antonios [...]

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Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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