[knighthawk]

Europe-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[skeeter]

One of the reasons is Mr Berlusconi's continued grip on much of the Italian media. The Prodi government remarkably didn't do anything about this conflict of interest.

Imagine a political candidate/party controlling media outlets.

Glad this doesn't happen in MY country. /s

[what's up]

I wonder what is causing Italians to fall in love with Silvio again?

[JerseyHighlander]

The scary part is Sam Zell and David Geffen have similar intentions regarding using the media assets of the Tribune Company (and the LATimes when Geffen eventually buys it) to shape and censor the public discourse to their likings.

Of course Berlusconi has a much greater media empire and has much less competition from the internet in Italian language news and opinion media.

Italy: Internet Usage and Population Statistics:

YEAR	Users	Population	% Pop.	Usage Source
2000	13,200,000	57,989,900	22.8 %
2004	28,610,000	58,608,565	48.8 %
2007	32,190,658	59,546,696	54.1 %	Nielsen N//R

[Mount Athos]

France, Italy, and Canada’s leaders, all with somewhat reasonable attitudes towards the USA. Hard to believe

[SunkenCiv]

Big B nibbled some supposedly tainted cheese, and (clowning around) pretended he was dying from it.

Italy: Right-wing women the most beautiful, claims Berlusconi
AKI | 8 April, 2008
Posted on 04/09/2008 7:56:37 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999322/posts

Italy under EU pressure over dioxin-tainted mozzarella scare
AFP on Yahoo | 3/27/08 | AFP
Posted on 03/27/2008 4:55:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992812/posts