The journalist Francesca Mannocchi, who has covered the war in Ukraine for various newspapers, is the protagonist of a cartoon in the Fatto Quotidiano which describes the ‘side effects of phosphorus and uranium on war correspondents’. Mannocchi is defined as ‘the impoverished skull’. The cartoon feeds the debate on Twitter, with an avalanche of condemnatory messages. “Thank you all for the public and private messages. Only one thing: don’t insult the newspaper, the newspapers are their readers. Let’s practice point-by-point criticism, without discounts, but with precise, punctual and informed words. We have them, let’s make good use of them use and let’s take care of it”, writes Mannocchi.
The theme is addressed on TV by Enrico Mentana, guest of Massimo Giletti on Non è l’arena on La7. “We have to understand each other. If you say an ‘impoverished skull’ about a journalist, it’s not satire: it’s an offense. We’re not talking about a strong subject, say it about Mentana or Giletti… She’s a journalist who, according to unlike most of her old and new detractors, she was there. Can you tell her an impoverished skull? Satire can do everything? Very well, but can we say that it sucks?”, says the director of Tg La7.
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