Saturday Night Live Has Gone Too Far with Italian American Defamation by Dr
VOL. 121 - NO. 16 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 21, 2017 $.35 A COPY Saturday Night Live Has Gone Too Far with Italian American Defamation by Dr. Dean Saluti I am writing to you, Pamela highest levels in our profes- icans to fight against this Donnaruma, because your sions and to continue to serve SNL blasphemy. Next, I have newspaper, the Post-Gazette, our community. Has all of this alerted Tony Sestito, the Presi- has always been “The Voice been in vain? dent of the 6000-member Mas- of the Italian People.” The Sal DiDomenico, from sachusetts Sons of Italy. Tony Gazette, under you, your Cambridge’s Saints Cosmas & and I have both asked litigation parents, and your grandfather, Damian Society, called me to attorney Al DeNapoli, the Chair- has fought the tough battles express his outrage over a TV man of the Massachusetts Sons against discrimination toward program that had brought his of Italy Commission for Social Italian-Americans for over 100 family to tears. On Saturday Justice, the anti-defamation years. Just when we thought night, April 8, 2017, in the last arm of the Sons of Italy, to re- that we had reached a level of fi ve minutes of Saturday Night view the SNL issue. I am sure respect in this great country of Live (SNL), a line was crossed. that Al will solicit assistance ours, we fi nd ourselves kicked SNL stooped to an unacceptable from the National Sons of Italy down again by the seemingly level of defamation of Italians. Commission for Social Jus- uncontrollable nasty, tasteless, In a skit depicting tenement tice, led by Kevin Caira from biased media outlet, Saturday life in the early 20th century, Massachusetts.
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