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what’s the most you think?
important for a journalist
the news is direct but certainly the news
it’s that hunting prey and then it’s that
precious booty that is studied that yes
elaborate and then tell a story
well yes it is true the news is the thing
more important but there is an enemy
deadly for all journalists a
enemy who is a dictator of life and
of professional life and it is time
of course because you imagine
after so much trouble to finally have
found a news also say the
news
you have not only lost lost time
nights lost the weekend with the boyfriend and
dinner with friends to find it is
well you do not have time to give it arrived
late or imagine them instead
he had always found this news with
all the sacrifices I mentioned and in
time when you can tell it there
It is granted only a minute a minute
and a half at the most to tell it all
details including a minute 60 seconds
a minute and a half more than good to say
but no it is not possible instead it is
what you see every day in
a newscast the stories you listen to
they last 60 seconds or at most one minute
and a half when they are more important
when more time is granted
details included
then what it means of course
this means that
journalism is an operation of
craftsmanship that certainly puts together
the technique but also puts all together
a series of personal skills the
talent and then the ability to manage the
time that always those who run back
behind and it’s never quite crowded
of talent
the talent always felt rho that
person there is an innate talent the gift
of talent for that other person then
something very rare something
we attribute precisely a gift of birth
but I believe that talent is there
something that we have absolutely everyone
because what is talent if not the
ability to use what we have
learned up to a certain moment maybe
even suddenly in a moment
precise and to make you understand what I mean
I want to tell you an anecdote that is
happened to me personally I speak of
many years ago it was in 2000 I was in
the news arrives
the other part of the world that has been there
an ecological disaster where to the islands
galapagos
so let’s talk about the Pacific Ocean
one thousand kilometers from the coast
from Ecuador the director tells me mimosa
what you have to share you have to reach them
galapagos islands
you have to reach do you like the most
soon that place that island
of the archipelago for which accustomed to
this I take birth for not flight arrival
in ecuador I go to the south of ecuador
there he reaches me an operator who
they had found in the meantime that it arrives
from new york i did not know i can
let us embark on both of them on an airplane
small military plane that takes us
at the archipelago airport then on
an island that was not that of disaster
environmental then arrived
I absolutely have to invent the
way to not waste time and so
reach the island of san cristobal
as I had some cash dollars
I go to the dock and find it
a sort of agency I talk to them
they certainly say we propose them therefore there is
a man we offer you a quick spear
with two people who will take her in
very little time on the island of san
cristobal now pay because in the meantime
let’s fill up with fuel then
while I waited for them to bring me
this fast launch
I walk around for piers at last
a boat launches
wood with two little boys but after two
kids one was 20 and one
make 18 years just that day
save with the operator and we start this
fast travel in the middle of the archipelago
Pacific Ocean itself islands first islands
closer
we are happy and still day
because because we succeeded
because we can get there where
we want because then let’s say it’s a
place only extraordinary le
galapagos and darwin islands a true one
paradise of the ecosystem and after a while
time we have not yet arrived from
anywhere I turn like when
we arrive as time takes time and
meanwhile we continue meanwhile the sea rises
the sea makes the waves grow but there
they are the wonderful big dolphins
ocean dolphins playing with us
and they jump and we play with them
seeing them counting them looking at them
meanwhile the sea rises the sea salemi giro
of how when we arrive
it takes time it takes time and the sea
salt and the wind rises the time passes the
sun begins to lower the last ones
islands that we had seen pass not the
I see even more aft and I do not see
nothing in the bow
meanwhile the sea rises the sea salt is made
darker and lower, the sun goes down
on the horizon
we are completely soaked mine
operator completely because the waves
at that point they entered decisively
around inside the boat is still Ticino
time still time
in this noise of nature the
engine noise silence is over the
fuel because to pocket the i
money that person did not do
enough fuel useful to arrive
how far I had to get full ocean
Pacific the sun had now dropped the
waves grew the wind blew toward
northwest off the archipelago in
there were no dolphins in Paris
they jump more if they leave and when they leave
the dolphins go and the sharks arrive
you must know that I grew up in
a family with two parents with many
very sporty passions one of these
passions was the sailboat
I grew up on a sailboat
I’ve been tucked in there as a child
spent all my vacations as a child
as a teenager, I am always there
complained about this because I was coming back to
school with tales of storms
extraordinary in the Mediterranean
I mum dad and my brother just us
in a small boat of 9 meters without
motor only sailing and there were no
cell phones we had no time we did not have
nothing and nobody knew where we were
Well, I’ve always complained because
my classmates do not hold him
it mattered nothing of my great ones
sea storms they always wanted
that the first amorazzi is known
always complained at that juncture
sailor who m
entered the scene fortunately for which ai
two little boys who started to
cry and then kneel to pray
I told him now you stop there
two oars
take hermitages and the first thing that
let’s do and try not to do
to drive out from here we must
stay absolutely as much as possible
stop here because because also the
journalist who is in me had me
saved before leaving when I was doing
up and down on that way
there was a boat a little big and that
warmed the engines said ah but you where
go there we go to the island of san
cristobal a but when we start in
afternoon when we spend so many hours
before arriving then I inside of me
I had told myself well with my spear
I arrived immediately so I knew it was there
a boat that would do the same
the same route was my only salvation
stay along that route
in the meantime it was dark and something else
to the operator to kidnap pulls out the
you have a little camera spotlight
of battery on a little bit do not use it
do it when I tell you, I’ll cut them
hands if you do it first and then I am
putting forth of Christopher Columbus in the
dark and in the middle of the ocean
yes, yes , we did it in
distance then hours have passed but I have
saw that light I waited for it
get as close as possible to the col
spotlight I made the signal line
precisely line is precisely line sos there
they took and saved us
but I want you to make you understand when I do
I talk about this talent of this
ability to pull out everything to do
what we learned in life
another episode that always concerns me
so brings you to travel
from the pacific and inner ocean to iraq
of late spring 2003 then
let’s talk decisively about the first phase
of the war the Americans had
invaded from the south
we did this ride
crazy were going to get to baghdad
me with a jeep that I entrusted myself
questions that I have loaded with fuel
Water the food bins with water
the operator who worked with me
we have taken and we have entered the iraq e
in the war I drove he did le
shooting with him I did too
I make a brief statement on Afghanistan
I call my napoca lebano and a
brother practically what we have
lived together a little way totò e
peppino because this happened to us
things but in short I close the record
fine driving the car arrives at
baghdad after time I was in baghdad
covered therefore the arrival of the Americans
the war that continued and all of it
situation in baghdad has therefore decided
then to go back to queries and
in my car
I also take another journalist who
corresponding harris of the loop
let’s make this journey we are there
wake up very soon we are there
wake up at dawn because we wanted to
stop in a very important city
and najaf a sacred city that when I have
made the outward journey was still
besieged by the Americans could not be
absolutely enter instead
Americans had taken away the siege was in
an extraordinary pilgrimage course
of the Shiites in the first they could do
since the days of saddam and so we are
stop after which I take the steering wheel again
and through the desert my two
friends who accompanied me were asleep
deeply profoundly I drove
I was very tired too I was frankly
I was very tired of my eyes
tried out from the desert sand and in
that moment I was just going through
the desert the south of iraq an area of
full desert with this road though
good that this strip runs through it
I struggle to arrive at 130 per hour
suddenly while I was with mine
thoughts saying I do not owe
to put one of these eyes to sleep
tonight I will finally sleep in a real one
hotel because of course at baghdad e
I had slept on the floor
suddenly I hear a big thump
big noise like a thud and the
machine suddenly collapses me
all the right side and there begins to
make carambola tail head to try
500 turnaround
meters that I experienced in slow motion and
there what came out of me two came out
the first thing is that my parents
so sporty that we went
always skiing all weekends and we from
Rome naturally we did not have a
car suitable for snow ice
but it does not matter
it was done the same there were not
snow tires when I was little
the chains were then an increase that mine
Father let alone never put them for
charity only when it’s right
indispensable never became
indispensable therefore I have grown up
making head tail on ice with mine
father my mother who said I recommend
you must never press the brake
never press the clutch to accompany it
do with two fingers
the steering to support the car and me
I did this, I resented them
that said this this I did
and then not only and then when I went down
from the car that was finally still
it had not turned over
my two escorts with their eyes
at that point, they are wide open
hugged in a hurry mind a lot
coldly I just said that course is
served for something because few
weeks before leaving for the war
in iraq
I had been invited one day into one
automotive circuit near Rome a
take a short driving course on ice
gimkane driving very fast on track and
so all this was family to
certainly my situation here
escorts were very grateful that i
I had saved my life very happy
instead I realized that in truth there
they had fired and then I was
terrified that they would shoot us
to kill to rob or to catch
something that did not happen for others
circumstances
because I told you all this
to talk to you about this talent
what else is talent if we
ability to use in a given
moment all we have
learned since we were born and the
journalism with this mixture of
innate curiosity but also of technique
certainly, however, also a lot of
improvisation among other things then always
besieged by this time that you
chases never gives you respite well
it forces you to always use all your own
resources anyway and always and it is right
that’s why I chose to do it
Journalist
because it puts what is then one
challenge with myself at the service of all
how many is a form of craftsmanship
extraordinary but the craftsmanship of the time
but also the alchemy of the time you have
since you can dilate it you can stop it
if you are in an emergency situation
everyone has the talent because
everyone has experiences
everyone read a book listened to one
sentence seen a bright banner of the
store and is therefore the memory that
feeds and builds the talent that in
certain moments can save you
life or even help you spend the
more banal than the days and here
because if I lived on Mars myself
however, being a journalist
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