Emilio Fede, From "Special Envy" to "African Sciupone": a Life in the Cult of Silvio Berlusconi

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Among his longings was to be buried with the Knight in the mausoleum of Arcore, but that privilege was never granted to him.

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A life behind the small screen, from Rai to Mediaset after, was the first to announce the beginning of the Gulf War, with a watershed: the encounter with Silvio Berlusconi, and the cult for him. The rise and fall of the "special envy", the judicial troubles in the last years of life, the desire to be buried with the Knight in the mausoleum of Arcore. "We were like brothers, he took me many years ago with immense affection and was reciprocated by…

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Few characters of Italian television journalism have embodied, like Emilio Fede, the contradictions of the relationship between information, politics and economic power. Born in Barcelona Pozzo di Gotto in 1931, Faith began his career in RAI, where he became one of the most recognizable faces of the news. In the sixties and seventies he was sent special to Africa, telling about wars and international crises. That experience earned him notoriety,…