Biography of Giorgio Bocca


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18 August 1920 25 December 2011 Giorgio Bocca is a true Dean of Italian journalists, one of the most popular and one of the beds. It can be said that, together with the equally old Enzo Biagi, was considered a monument, a sacred monster of the press in our country although, due to his fierce style and free of concessions, often criticized and challenged (it would seem even more than that of the other illustrious colleague). Missing the late Malik, in fact, his mouth remained one of the few journalists with that incomparable charisma of that moral rectitude unscratchable, and a personal story so dense that his every word becomes a subject of debate. Mouth is remembered as a person able to move consciences, to create lively discussions and fervent, to say something that is not granted and in tune to the chorus. Born in Cuneo on August 18, 1920, participated in the evolution of journalism Italian from the first world war in which he chronicled. Having participated in the partisan war in justice and freedom then has taken the first steps, after the war, on the sheet of the organisation, in Turin. Subsequently his Chronicles have had to take account of the cold war and its repercussions inside, which created a climate of tension not indifferent also in Italy. Then his mouth was a witness and a polished storyteller of the so-called "Boom" of the years ' 60, which has combined social investigations and services of various kinds. Of course Mouth also crossed the difficult times of the journalism of the ' 70, subjected to terrorist blackmail (many journalists were murdered), and torn apart by social claims and by the prevailing economic crisis. The stages of his career are these: Editor to "Gazzetta del Popolo", in 1954 was in Milan at the "European", then sent the "Day" of Enrico Mattei directed by Italo Pietra. He was among the founders of "Republic" in 1975 and, in addition to the columnist in the newspaper, takes on the "express" in the words of The "address book". Fininvest networks, since 1983, has designed and conducted a series of journalistic programmes: "front page", "protagonists", "2000", "the citizen and the power". He was also a commentator for "the record" and "broadcast news." In 1989 led by channel 5 a journalistic investigation on Italian and international terrorism degli anni ' 70-' 80, entitled "the world of terror". As a historian and witness of his time published by Mondadori numerous essays, among which: "history of Italy", "partisan Palmiro Togliatti", "provincial", "The lost traveler," "I want to get off!", "wrong century". A card-Rai International, describes him thus: "in more than 80 years, Giorgio Bocca is still a fierce political and economic commentator. His horror against false goals and promises a fictitious Club doesn't seem to soften, or find answers that will reassure. Lashes out with force and a hint of fatalism against disease hidden from the white cloth of globalisation, which stripped of its beautiful surface reveals the spread of interest set in motion by a powerful and uncontrollable economic machine. Advocates for opening of signs of recovery, a return of political thought".

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