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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFricking awesome... The amazing Wolf Blitzer wins the Italian Urbino Press Award
I love Wolf--- Possibly the best Journalists on the planet. Those who know me well on DU since 2001 know that I am Wolf's biggest fan and wish that all journalist ask hard hitting questions like Wolf and have his brilliance.
Italian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington Claudio Bisogniero announced Wolf Blitzer, conductor of the CNN television programme The Situation Room Wolf Blitzer, as winner of the 8th annual Urbino Press Award this years being a special edition as one the many events organized for the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the USA.
Urbino Award an honour, says Blitzer
I am honoured to receive the Urbino Press Award, Blitzer said, underscoring that he was accepting it also in the name of all my colleagues at CNN. Ted Turners idea of a channel entirely dedicated to information truly changed the way of doing journalism in the United States and in the world, explained one of the best-known television faces in the U.S., referring to the founder of CNN.
Bisogniero: Blitzer a quality brand
Wolf Blitzer is a quality brand in journalism for all o f us, asserted Ambassador Bisogniero in the course of the festivities, whose participants included prominent American media personalities and members of the Washington administration and diplomatic spheres.
Wolf has managed to build a strong professional profile in the course of an extraordinary career, the Italian diplomat continued; during the evening the victims of the tragedies in West, Texas and the Boston Marathon were also recalled.
Blitzer began as a reporter for Reuters in the early 1970s assigned to TelAviv and came to CNN in May of 1990, working for many years as a White House correspondent and finally becoming one of the best-known faces in television news. He will be in Italy on 20 June to accept the award at the customary ceremony held in Urbino
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Sala_Stampa/ArchivioNotizie/Approfondimenti/2013/04/20130419_Italia_Usa_Wolf_Blitzer_onore_Premio_Urbino.htm
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)But..Good Job! if it's any of the above!
chillfactor
(7,584 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)He is the closet I've ever come to becoming Gay.
Me loves me some Wolf.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Who is better than Wolf?
No one.
Name a journo hotter than Wolf.
You can't.
Who reads the nooz better than Wolf?
Fucking nobody.
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trumad
(41,692 posts)time to find the lube.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)The bar is pretty low. That said, I felt like I had to say that he's had one or two moments of pure brilliance, so it's not like Bill O got the award :/
KT2000
(20,587 posts)not to over-exaggerate or under-exaggerate the Boston Bombing story, he must have gotten it just right for such an honor.
trumad
(41,692 posts)excellent.