5/13/2023 0 Comments Umberto eco numero zeroAnd it's perfect for Colonna because it's a job that requires a loser. 80 million lire, Simei, the professor, offers. His new novel, Numero Zero, is a book about conspiracies and journalists - about a self-professed loser named Colonna (a hack journo, ghostwriter, manuscript reader and perpetually impoverished freelancer now skidding into middle-age) offered a sweet gig out of the blue by a former professor. His characters as charming as bunions, as competent as toddlers with power drills. The world you know is only the world you are allowed to know by powerful forces who trust ultimately in your laziness and stupidity to keep the truth from you. That's Umberto Eco's conspiracy-obsessed journalist Braggadocio weighing in on the operating philosophy of Italian newspapers (or, maybe, newspapers in general) in the early 1990's. so news drowns in a great sea of information." X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. "The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Numero Zero Author Umberto Eco and Richard Dixon
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