Saturday, March 26, 2016

Will we become suspicious?

A woman wearing an 'I love Belgium' T-shirt lights a candle during a vigil for the victims of the Brussels bomb attacks at Trafalgar Square in London. Photo: Reuters

Until CNN came along, we watched international news on Rai Uno. This meant that I grew up with anchor Lily Gruber, tilting her head, dangling her earrings and telling us in that sexy voice of hers that "un altra bomba è scattata" in Northern Ireland, in the Basque region of Spain, in Israel, in Palestine. Her voiceover was superimposed on images of the aftermath: people crying, shouting, carried away by medics. This was the 1980s. Terrorist attacks were part of the daily news routine. But in our minds the attacks were very remote, and we often relegated them to a mutter of "ara dawk... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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