The ideal reader is someone who knows about foreign policy and he cares about it. The article is about Italian policy so we may think that the ideal readers are intelligent Italians who want to have a critical point of view about the turmoiled Italian situation.

The text is organized into four paragraphs and also integrates a non- linear text: a Mario Monti’s photo. The picture is put there to help the naïve reader or in general someone not well informed about Italian politics and to help to understand what the article is about.

In the first paragraph the blogger of Cassandra ( a blog who sometimes appears on the Economist) expresses clearly his favour for Mr. Monti roles he had to perform (prime Italian minister, member of the European union..). Then the writer specifies that he had not only a good imaginary idea of him, because he has recently met him and the encounter contributed to his good opinion of the politician.

He briefly reports what Monti said but he also paint him as an atypical Italian character (calm, measured, whit desire of working) aspects that strangers are not used to see on the Italian scenery (just think abut Silvio Berlusconi and his performances). All that contributes to underline the journalist preference.

The journalist remembers that he’s not Italian so the second paragraph is introduced by a question:” do Italians see the same as me?”. The writer immediately underlines that is not a stupid or unuseful question because it was asked also by Charlemagne (another  esteemed blog) in the New York Times journal ( a very relevant newspaper). By quoting a relevant blog, it involves the readers to ask themselves the same question.

Later he explains that Italians don’t see Monti in a good prospect thanks to Silvio Berlusconi. The writer who clearly expresses his opposition against Berlusconi made a little joke by using the world “certain” (a certain silvio Berlusconi): it is a way of reducing his importance in the whole article but also in real life.

This is implicitly explained by the following sentence (Silvio dominates the media): the blogger didn’t want to make Berlusconi the most important character of the article as it always happens.

To cut something long: in this part of the text is introduced the first problem Monti has to resolve in order to become the now Italian premier.

In the third part of the text is a quotation from Monti in which he discusses about his two most criticized actions: increasing retirement age and pensions fully contribution based, and the reason why Monti finds them good things (future generations will enjoy it). But here you can notice the second of Monti’s problems.

In the last part, the blogger finally answers the question he asked immediately after the introductory part, with the help of the previous parts (Monti’s plan and Berlusconi): because of it, many Italians wont vote for him; they wont see their retires posticipated and spend more money for contributes.

By the use of some words (psychological, genius) and a quite informal style of writing the writer means that he gave the reader the necessary information to make a clear idea about the situation but also that the conclusion he arranged was the one everyone should have thought of too.