Within Italy's Berlusconi government Moves are apparently afoot to stop Murdoch's Sky from broadcasting Italy's public TV channels, RaiUno, RaiDue and RaiTre.At least this is what an article on Italian news website La Repubblica states today, complete with a headline that alludes to the fact … [Read more...]
When Cure is Better Than Prevention
April 15, 2009 By 3 Comments
Feeling a bit sick, I am. The head of Italy's Civil Protection service, Guido Bertolaso, was interviewed on the Italian RAI 24 news channel this evening.Effectively Bertolaso stated that had Italy's politicians actually bothered to insist on the enforcement of anti-earthquake building … [Read more...]
Is Press Freedom about to be Limited in Italy?
May 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Not too long ago, in fact just after Berlusconi won the elections, I spoke to a journalist who works for a major Italian newspaper, and this journalist told me that he and many of his colleagues were worrying about clamp downs on press freedom in Italy.Well, it's looking as though this hack's … [Read more...]
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