FollowtheMedia: Murdoch and Berlusconi in a battle of the media titans
‘One of life’s great joys is watching two media barons battle it out using all the weapons at their command,’ comments Philip Stone in a comprehensive piece on FollowtheMedia. While it’s not a new...
View ArticleBBC News: Italian media group suing Berlusconi for defamation
L’Espresso, the publisher of La Repubblica, Italy’s second largest newspaper, is suing the Italian prime minister and media owner, Silvio Berlusconi, the BBC reports. It said that Berlusconi had not...
View ArticleEuropean Federation of Journalists says Berlusconi ‘putting press freedom to...
Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi ‘has stepped over a line by trying to stifle embarrassing but legitimate journalism at both home and abroad,’ the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the...
View Articlefreemedia.at: Over 300,000 at Italian press freedom protest
“A press freedom protest organised by the National Federation of the Italian Press, in the Italian capital Rome on Saturday, and which according to the organisers drew over 300,000 participants, was on...
View ArticleCarlo de Benedetti: press freedom, La Repubblica and Berlusconi
“The question of the truth and of accountability underpinning this issue, which has been round the world, has also become a question of freedom. The Prime Minister in attacking Repubblica is attacking...
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