Italian
media must be so happy right now.
Finally,
there’s another topic they can use to avoid discussing the real problems of our
country: the Olympics. It doesn’t matter if they are taking place in London,
somehow they still have the priority over everything else.
Today at
1pm I was watching the news (I won’t say what channel, but anyway unless you
watch the Sky news channel they are all really alike), but before I heard
something different from the Olympics I had to wait for a good ten minutes.
First of
all, we absolutely need to celebrate the victory of the Italian women, who got
all the three fencing medals. Fair enough, let’s be happy, since it is unlikely
to happen again.
Then, a
five minute long interview to the archery men’s team, that won the gold medal.
And they also spent time joking about the fact that they become Olympic champions
despite being quite fat.
Only after
the extremely impelling report about the archery team’s physical shape, we
finally heard about the economy, the Pope’s wish that the violence in Syria
stopped, and then a report about the actual situation in Syria. In that order:
first the Pope’s speech about Syria, then Syria.
I’m always
speechless in these occasions. I honestly don’t understand how they can think
that the Olympics and the Pope are more important than the violence in Syria. Plus,
since I study in London, I developed a kind of dislike for the Olympics just
like the Londoners, but that’s a personal thing. I want to thank Mario Monti
for saying no to the Olympics in Rome.
Well, after
all, football is the best way to divert Italian people’s attention from
reality, but when we don’t have football we can be content with any kind of
sport. Let’s get ready to be brainwashed for the next weeks.
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