| megaman79 said: @Buzzi, Italy is one of my fav. holiday destinations but i agree, the country is corrupt and falling apart in alot of areas. Media especially is basically owned by the PM Berlusconi. I would hesitate to trust the source. |
Berlusconi has really a big grip on medias, and this is a problem, but his arch-rival "Repubblica" is not pure at all, its not so covert aim was in the past to make its former director, Eugenio Scalfari, and its publisher, Carlo De Benedetti, become behind the scenes what Berlusconi became openly, instead. Repubblica always supported Prodi as candidate Prime Minister, and he became twice, if Prodi really was the leader of Centre-Left parties, as he naïvely believed, he wouldn't have been overthrown so easily twice by his own allies. 
You can find not so clean ties between Prodi and De benedetti googling for Prodi De Benedetti Cirio OR SME. Searching De Benedetti Poste Italiane you'll find about him selling obsolete computers at inflated prices to Italian Post. What in both cases happened, or better, what judges absolutely didn't to him, despite blatant evidences, is beyond abnormality.
