Citizen Berlusconi

This was a hot summer in Italy, a big summer for Silvio Berlusconi - Italy's prime minister - and a summer Italians should never forget. A summer where the Prime Minister's soccer team won the European championship, where he took over the rotating presidency of the European Union, and a summer where Berlusconi used the power of Prime Minister to remedy his personal and business problems. It was a summer to show the rest of the world the dangers of mixing media ownership with politics. ....´Citizen Kane´ is, you know, a mouse compared to an elephant. ´Citizen Kane´ was a businessman and ran a very important newspaper. Berlusconi owns half of Italian televisions, controls the other half and all the advertisement. He conditions most of the press. Citizen Kane is, as we say in Italian ´una pulce!´ nothing... (Giovanni Sartori)