How deep is the political bias at RAI?
Political interference in RAI is not new. I know it and I have never been nave or silent about it. But the passage of time does not make right that which is wrong. It makes it worse. We have reached with Berlusconi a level where what has been so far considered as a bearable ailment has taken the dimension of a life-threatening disease. There is no other democratic country where one man can control six television channels, plus various radios, newspapers and magazines and at the same time be prime minister. There is no democratic country where the same man controls directly or indirectly (RAI and Mediaset together) over 90 percent of the advertising revenues of the television sector. We are not talking here about old fashioned political mingling with the press business; we are talking about monopolistic control of electronic media by one man who represents one political side and reduces access to public television to his political enemies. But American media, Fox News, say, is often pro
