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Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

Be afraid - Berlusconi’s plans for the internet

Monday, December 8th, 2008

In the same week that Berlusconi’s much contested minister for education, Mariastella Gelmini, took a leaf out of Obama’s book and created a youtube channel to address students directly*, Silvio Berlusconi announced to the world that he would be seeking to sort out the internet at next year’s G8 summit which will be held (disgracefully [...]

Newsweek adopts the ‘Italian school’ of modern journalism, and beatifies Berlusconi

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Newsweek, last week, carried a quite astonishing piece on Silvio Berlusconi’s first 100 days in office. The glowing tribute stopped short of suggesting that Trenitalia now runs on time, but only just (coincidentally, despite the fact that it was a major election issue, Alitalia crops up nowhere in the piece).
Astonishing because it may well be [...]