Monday,
November 05, 2007
Media Short Changes Italians of
Accomplishments, Focuses on Petty Thugs
The
ANNOTICO Report
Isn't
it revolting how easily the Media overlooks the Italian Ethnicity when so
many Italians have Remarkable Achievements,
and how quickly the Media must associate any petty
criminal with his Italian Ethnicity. Try to keep an eye out, and see
if that is not true.
In
this case, while the Albany Times Union
mentioned the British roots of one of the Three Nobel Prize winners, and the
Welsh roots of the second Nobel Prize winner, it did NOT mention the ITALIAN
roots of the third Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Mario R. Capecchi
Egidio Currenti a research scientist at the New York State
Health Department corrects the Record!!!!! Thanks Egidio !!!!!!!
Nobel Story Lacked Mention of Winner's
Roots
Monday, November 5,
2007
An article in the Oct. 9 Times Union stated that "two American scientists and a Briton won the Nobel Prize in medicine for ground-breaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating genes."
However, your article lacked fairness and objectivity in treating people of Italian descent.
In fact, you justly and accurately wrote that
one of the scientists was a native of
The article demonstrated a lack of sensitivity toward an ethnic group that has contributed so much to the greatness of this country.
Moreover, it did not show kindliness for
Italians and Italian-Americans, who celebrate October as the Italian Culture
and Heritage Month. Incidentally, Dr. Capecchi was
born in
Dr. Capecchi's family was persecuted by the Nazis during the World War II. His grandfather, an archaeologist, was gunned down by the German Gestapo. His father, an Italian aviator, perished while fighting the Nazis.
He himself spent the war destitute in Northern
Italy after his American mother, a poet, was arrested and sent to the
Dr. Capecchi's
schooling in
He did his undergraduate degree at
Dr. Capecchi spent
six years at Harvard, where he met Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the
structure of DNA. He is, presently, performing his research at the
EGIDIO CURRENTI
Loudonville
The writer is a research scientist at the State Health Department's
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