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The years of "Time"

My father was for some years the Managing Editor of "Time," the newspaper from Palermo in the afternoon, for years, has set itself the antagonist of "Il Giornale di Sicilia" , while maintaining all the features of the daily afternoon offering previews of the news and events of political life with the timeliness that could never have a morning newspaper.
Today, with the development of information media, with the speed of radio-tlevisione, but especially with the advent of the Internet and updates in real time, the function of newspapers throughout the afternoon and sunset.
But then - we speak of the 50s and 60s - had its own reason for being. M
father that I - journalistically - had cut his teeth - with other experiences - even the editor of other newspapers - assumed - with the enthusiasm and seriousness that distinguished him - the direction of "Time".
During his leadership, the property sold to the Communist Party newspaper. My father, in his political convictions, while giving priority to cross-cultural values \u200b\u200b- was socialist faith, when to be Socilista still meant something, and in any case, it came from "pictures" of the political mess.
his style was practicing a pure form of journalism, pollution from negotiations and political compromise, and - basically - was on the side of the "Truth" and values \u200b\u200bof our culture, not the party of truth. The first act of the new owners was to create a political figure's co-director, who accompanied my father in his capacity as Managing Director.
The choice fell on the PCI Vittorio Nisticò.
course, or do not know the background, nor create a climate that was then in preparation. My father was able to establish relations of civil courtesy and tolerance with all colors of which he knew always appreciate the intelligence and cultural skills.
These were the values.
But this period of "co-management" of the news was particularly hard for him.
What can I say, simply arguing, and that what happened in the name of respect for the party line that had the property of the head, from the beginning there was a major interference in his duties as Managing Director, a sort of war Chafing
My mother tells me that he, at that time, he became very nervous and touchy, and expressing his being, sleeping less and less and smoking one cigarette after another.
was the period that came to consume more than forty cigarettes per day (and his favorite brand was the National unfiltered: Do you remember the green package with the caravel in black? Quelle).
was always with a lighted cigarette in his hand, or hanging from his lips in the manner of Humphrey Bogart.
Then, at last, the battle (which he had not chosen to fight, because he wanted only to do his job well), was lost and he left and decided to look for another place to carry out his rare qualities of intellectual and man .

When my father died prematurely, in his coffin was placed (Because it corresponded to a wish expressed in his life) a copy of the first issue of Time came out with his signature of Managing Director.

It's a little 'wrong Nisticò Vittorio stated that, in a few days ago was celebrated in the memory of a day of study, entitled "The Time Nisticò (1955-1975)" in its by memories of the years of "Time", It happened in Sicily. The Roaring Twenties "L'Ora" di Palermo (Sellerio, Palermo), has disposed of the previous leadership (my father) in just one line and a half, with a careless step, as if "Time" was started with him and that everything that had gone before did not matter.

would have been nice - and generous - good book to read as a tribute to Nisticò more complex, partly because my father was a person - and a professional - a great intellectual honesty and certainly did not deserve to be quashed with forgetting.