«Nel film Apocalypse Now, il colonnello Kurtz viene spedito nella giungla dove fa la guerra ai vietcong con i metodi dei vietcong e da chi viene ucciso? Da un sicario mandato dallo Stato Maggiore».
Augusto Minzolini al Riformista di oggi (che non ha avuto tempo per leggere Conrad da giovane probabilmente perché lo stavano addestrando a dare la caccia ai vietcong).
Ansa
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«Preferisco rinunciare alle immagini del calcio piuttosto che licenziare».
Paolo Garimberti, presidente della Rai, rispondendo a una domanda sul taglio di «Novantesimo minuto».
Ansa
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L'audizione di James Murdoch oggi di fronte a un comitato del parlamento inglese è stata tostissima. Tom Watson, uno dei membri del comitato, gli ha praticamente dato del mafioso per concludere
You must be the first mafia boss in history who didn’t know he was running a criminal enterprise.
Il figlio di Murdoch - in difficoltà per le mezze verità che è costretto a dire per non finire in guai sempre più grossi - ha abbozzato.
Media Decoder (New York Times)
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McDonald's ha deciso di aprire un canale televisivo, il McDonald's Channel. Immagino sarà piuttosto insipido senza ketchup.
In one of the most unusual twists in niche programming, the global fast-food chain is launching the McDonald's Channel, a digital network of exclusive original content targeted at dine-in customers. The programming will be customized to specific communities around the individual restaurants, and will include local news and entertainment features, such as spotlights on upcoming films, albums and TV shows. McDonald's move is part of a broader digital-age strategy by corporate America to create its own platforms to speak directly to customers in an environment uncluttered by other media. Just as individuals have flocked to social media to tell their own stories, McDonald's is the latest in a growing number of image-conscious corporations and institutions that will reach out to consumers by acting as their own studio and network.
Los Angeles Times
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Burini sì, ma non così burini: Abercrombie & Fitch ha offerto parecchi soldi a Michael Sorrentino, uno dei protagonisti di Jersey Shore per fare in modo che non indossi i prodotti della popolare marca d'abbigliamento.
Abercrombie & Fitch has decided Jersey Shore's cocktail of sex, alcohol, bragging and bad behaviour is harming its "aspirational" brand image and "may be distressing to many of our fans".
Guardian
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Clive Goodman, il giornalista che si occupava della famiglia reale inglese e che fu licenziato per la faccenda del phone hacking, ammette esplicitamente in una lettera che lo spionaggio era considerato pratica corrente al News of the World, contrariamente a quanto asserito da Andy Coulson, James e Ruper Murdoch.
In the letter, which was written four years ago but published only on Tuesday, Goodman claims that phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial meetings at the paper until Coulson himself banned further references to it; that Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed not to implicate the paper in hacking when he came to court; and that his own hacking was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of other senior journalists, whom he named.
In più il comitato che sta indagando sul phone hacking ha pubblicato dei nuovi documenti compromettenti e potrebbbe riascoltare James Murdoch.
Guardian, Commons Select Committee
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Rupert Murdoch ha detto agli azionisti - cioè sostanzialmente a se stesso, visto che possiede il 40% delle azioni della News Corp - che non ci pensa nemmeno lontanamente a dimettersi. Anche dopo lo scandalo delle intercettazioni avvenuto in "one small corner" del suo impero.
In a defiant performance during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings briefing call with analysts and the media, Mr Murdoch said the board supported him staying on as chief executive, that his son James, the presumptive heir, still had the trust of the company, and that he planned no changes to News Corp’s board of directors, which had been criticised as being insufficiently independent.
New York Times, Financial Times
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Il processo a Hosni Mukarak sarà trasmesso in diretta tv.
The trial of former President Hosni Mubarak will be held in a large hall that can accommodate six times as many people as a regular courtroom, and will be broadcast on Egyptian state television, the judge who will preside over the trial said Sunday.
New York Times
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Pare che quelli del News of the World abbiano spiato anche il telefonino di Sara Payne, la mamma di una bimba otto anni uccisa da un maniaco, che era diventata una specie di testimonial della campagna del NOTW per avere una legge che permettesse di rendere pubblici gli indirizzi delle persone condannate per reati sessuali. Un telefonino donato a Sara da Rebekah Brooks in persona. Ecco come descrivono la cosa Nick Davies e Amelia Hill sul Guardian:
Friends of Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends". The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire's notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Payne by Brooks to help her stay in touch with her supporters. On Thursday night Brooks insisted the phone had not been a personal gift but had been provided to Payne by the News of the World "for the benefit of the campaign for Sarah's law". In a statement, Brooks said the latest allegations were "abhorrent" and "particularly upsetting" because Sara Payne was a "dear friend".
Guardian
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