Beniamino Placido (1 February 1929 – 6 January 2010) was an Italian journalist, writer, and television critic.
He was a columnist on Italian culture for the newspaper ''
La Repubblica
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'' and wrote three best selling books on television in the 1990s.
Placido died on 6 January 2010 at his home in
Cambridge
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, Cambridgeshire, England.
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1929 births
2010 deaths
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Writers from Cambridge
People from Rionero in Vulture
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