"Giorgio Bocca can be summed up in a few words. He was a great journalist, but also highly partisan and prone to serious errors. We worked together at the same newspapers, starting with Il Giorno and then spending many years at La Repubblica and L'Espresso, but we were never friends. Bocca was a complex man: he did not like competitors or people who contradicted him. We fought many battles against each other, but there is no point in dwelling on them. Today, Giorgio is gone. I don't know if Italy will miss him, as some of his colleagues at La Repubblica say, but he will certainly leave a void... which I, however, do not regret."
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During the television program “TG2,” Rai 2, in memory of Giorgio Bocca the day after his death, December 26, 2011. Quoted in News.centrodiascolto.it
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Giampaolo Pansa
1935 – 2020
Giampaolo Pansa (1935–2020) was an Italian journalist, writer, and historian.
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