|a Alternative histories (Fiction) |2 lcgft |0 |a Civilization, Modern |y 20th century |0 |v Fiction. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II-from Mussolini to Berlusconi. It's all here: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. |a "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."- |c Provided by publisher. |a Boston, MA : |b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |c 2015. |a Numero zero / |c Umberto Eco translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon. In this way, readers are under the impression that they are being informed about two facts, but they're persuaded to accept just one view as being more convincing.|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDXCP |d BDX |d BTCTA |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d CCPLG |d GO6 |d QX9 |d ZHB |d BUR The trick lies in quoting first a trivial opinion and then another opinion that is more respectable, and more closely reflects the journalist's view. So there will be two conflicting statements to show, as a fact, that there are varying opinions on a particular issue, and the newspaper is taking account of this irrefutable fact. But it might be assumed that the journalist has only quoted someone who thinks like him. Those statements, once put in quotes, become facts - in other words, it's a fact that that person expressed that opinion. And so they introduce into the piece, in quotation marks, the statements of a witness, a man in the street, someone who represents public opinion. If they report, say, a fire or a car accident, then obviously they can't indulge in saying what they think. 'Take the major British or American newspapers.
“So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion.'
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