I could not miss the pleasant opportunity to send a welcome to colleagues who have decided to create a new magazine, "the bush"? Just me, I've just published by Garzanti a novel called "Chickens forever"? Welcome then to Italy in the henhouse.
seems that journalism online in blog form or other, being intangible and volatile free the practitioner from the obligation to be accurate, documented, to write in correct Italian, clear and understandable .
Anything goes for the print media, where the blunders or simple sloppiness remain in black and white under the eyes of all. In newsrooms located in open space on the partition dividing a field hand, are stuck cuttings with blunders and are there for years, eternal shame of those who committed them.
Well, let my idiosyncrasies of readers: the plaster casts of famous titles, "the caste, poor health care, announced the news of something, compounds that end in poly (as tangentopoli). Then there are words to me cause hives like "whatever", or the adjective "missed" attributed to a movie, a spectacle, an event. (If you tell me that I missed on purpose I do not go to view it). Then come the superlatives and hyperbole, "amazing, unbelievable, fantastic, unique." Adverbs make me horror, especially at the beginning of the sentence. Gianpaolo Pansa, in his memoirs as a journalist, says that he entered into the good graces of the legendary Giulio De Benedetti when they saw him as "passed" the article by a correspondent, after deleting the beginning where you chased two adverbs ("Almost every day" ) with a more tolerable "Almost every day."
Another detestable habit, the plaintiff in the cultural pages, consists of giving information known by four people around the world, using the interlayer "As everyone knows," so the reader, who did not know, you hear a worm. And then, the display of luxury and a language specialist. Example: "The universe is anisotropic for less than 10 to less than 4", means "the matter in the universe is not evenly distributed for less than one part in ten thousand." In the second sentence there is hope that someone will understand and continue reading.
Finally, I tell you things you know better than me: we can not count on the fact that our articles are read from beginning to end, so we try to say everything in the first lines and then develop the theme in favor of those who want to read it thoroughly. The incipit are fundamental and should be punched in the stomach of these to nail the reader intrigued. The great writers have invented a beautiful, there are also collections. To say, those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez that many have plagiarized as follows: "The day that they would kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning." In any case, the brevity and conciseness will never be praised enough. I do not remember who, but for sure it was a great man who wrote in a letter to a friend: "I write a long letter because I'm in a hurry and do not have available the time it would take to let it get quick."
Good luck on your Bruno Gambarotta .
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