Giovanna Botteri
"What was the first thing you did just come back from Iraq?" Giovanna Botteri, correspondent of the TG2 and TG3 in Baghdad throughout the war, does not think a lot: "A hot shower, a normal lunch, and a lot of washing machines. And then I tried to sleep."
The first thing you ate?
"Chocolate and ham. I was so accustomed to the low level after a while 'in Baghdad regretted the rice with bean sauce. E 'grade the last memory I have left. "
Have you suffered from a lack of food?
" Do not exaggerate. We had the adrenaline a thousand and worked too much to have time to go hungry. But there were two or three days they really had nothing to eat. I lost six pounds. "
I called the tissue of Saddam.
" Self-censorship took place, but we did not. That was the Iraqis who rightly fear. We even have told how as this wall of self-censorship has begun to unravel. Although, when someone wanted to say of things, you could not not bring moral problem that this person was running the very serious risks. All our material was strained by the Iraqi authorities. The newspaper reporters could protect their sources. But those of no TV. "
Would you rather be one of the journalists" embedded ", those" enrolled "in the U.S. Army?
" For heaven's sake, no. It was even difficult to distinguish them from real soldiers. Military jeep turned up, they were dressed in uniform, had the medal with blood, were shaved. Once a group of soldiers stopped asking a doctor and I said, 'Look I'm a journalist like you. " And I: "Quiet. Journalist like me? We have a bit 'away."
The embedded journalists were just militarized?
"There were thousands. The first ones arrived, CNN, Fox had its own soldiers, both visually and psychologically. The weapons were missing, although a couple of them said they shot. "
You do not you feel a bit '" embedded "on the other side?
" Absolutely not. You can not compare the pressure we had from the Information Minister Al Sahaf, Ali said the comedian, with the conditioning of the embedded. Interim dividend in each of us there were "Minders", interpreters that gave us the Ministry of Information. In reality, they were our auditors, our guards, our spies. At the end when it became clear that the war there was, the Minders, with whom we had already established a good relationship of friendship and confidence, they began to open up, to tell. But we were that we were afraid for them. The scheme held up as a chain of terror. You were raped and abused by the one above the one below. At a time when the chain was seen as something that might break, the same Minders began to tell and talk. "
So no real pressure?
" of another kind. Who makes television can not tell things that are not filmed. If people, for fear, he told only the propaganda of the regime, what I could tell. "
speak often with your family?
" It was very difficult to call. But we could receive phone calls. "
Your daughter was worried?
" It 's been very sheltered by her father for as long as it came from Trieste to Rome. It was he who took all the fear, watching all the TV News to see if there was or was not there. But to a certain point. At school no one talked about anything but war. "
There was competition and competition among you?
"Not at all. Gabriella Simoni, who was Tg5, is my girlfriend's heart and had the same condition as my mother at the front. The two of us we could never forget that we had children and we had to think a thousand times higher than that were going to do. There was solidarity and help. "
In Italy it was said that there was power to you and Gruber.
"We had different times. We did different things. There's never been any dispute. We shared an experience hard. It was so hard that we were experiencing all that there was no time for bickering."
You were so many women and some criticized because you were doing a little 'the stars, with all of the etnolook pashmina. In short, we rigged a bit 'too much.
"When I say these things helmet from the clouds. We had no electricity, water, were in poor condition in terms of makeup. At Gruber should give her a memorial because in those conditions was able to always look perfect."
The same can not be said of you. Looks like a cross between Marx and Gabriele La Porta.
"In my defense, I will have strafregata. But I have an invitation and I can do. Lilly is also a presenter. He has an image to defend." A woman tells
better war?
"It tells something different. Men are fascinated by military strategy, advanced by, the gauges, tanks. Their eye is on other things because their lives are different. We think the children to school, shopping, to everyday life. The thing that upsets me more is the distortion of the war of life everyday. Going to a house and hear a mother saying that the evening gives the children valium and uncoordinated all safety that one has..
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