Noemi as Mass distraction Weapon

Mr. Berlusconi recently filed a writ for defamation against La Repubblica for the famous ten unanswered questions. The following title is taken from the website of the newspaper (Article published August 28, 2009)

Come on, how can a question be defamatory? Anyway not answering is not the best way to defend oneself. The huge clamor about Noemi Letizia seems to be a frontal attack to the premier. The newspapers talking about the presumptive scandal seem to be the last chance of free press. Are we sure? Aren’t there any further questions that may be even more inconvenient for the premier?

On Jul 30th 2003 Bill Emmott Editor of The Economist sent an open to Silvio Berlusconi. In this letter still available on the website www.Economist.com we can read what follows:

«On April 28th 2001, we published a cover story entitled “Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy” and a four-page investigation “An Italian story”. We sent you a letter on April11th 2001, containing 51 questions, that stated: “The Economist intends to publish shortly a feature on your business career and on the various investigations into you and your companies that have been carried out by the Italian magistracy during the last seven years”. You did not reply.»

The letter ends with the following:

The questions of the Economist seem much more relevant than those of Repubblica, aren’t they? Does anybody care? Is the presumptive summer scandal the most important thing Italian press should care about?

And what about government policies? Is anyone checking if the premier is maintaining his past promises? About tax reduction? About infrastructures? Has anybody heard about a soap opera named Alitalia? Is it finished? What happened in the last episode? The entire world is trying to face the worst financial crisis since Great Depression, do anybody know what is going on in Italy? Will our prime minister’s famous humor and optimism solve everything as usual?