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  • Posted By: marfalbo @ 08/13/2008 6:35:53 AM

    Why should we praise a prime minister who has been successful in fighting perceived, virtual problem while he is slowly eroding the core of Italian democratic system and violating human rights?
    Apparently we should praise the fact that the parliament is not ridden by political squabbles and ???extremists???, we should praise the fact that a strong majority is able to take quick and strong decisions, against windmill... We should praise the fact that an unrepresentative parliament was elected.

    Why don???t I read that immigration contributes to the Italian revenue or that actually was the contribution of immigrants which keep afloat Italian economy?
    Why don???t I read the abuse of the legislative system to safeguard the prime Minster and his acolyte of friends?
    Why don???t I read the decline of democratic life and democratic institution?
    Why don???t I read of the responsibilities of the right wing government of the state of economy?
    Why don???t I read of the moral question?
    Why don???t a read a serious piece of information?

    • Posted By: cmaddaloni @ 08/13/2008 6:44:32 AM

      On what did Berluscono or this government violated the Human Right? May you please explain? Or you are just assuming they are?

      • Posted By: papelone @ 08/13/2008 7:04:53 AM

        Well cmaddaloni, if you were abroad and if you could access free information you would find out that takin fingerprints from romanian immigrants is for example a violation of human rights...come on even the church is against this government they are doin a lot worse than they did last time...why nobody remember that with Prodi our debt was decreasing whilst now we r back to our historical maximum? the problem is not the immigrants, the robbish etc. the real problem is the economic decline that will lead italy to civil war...

  • Posted By: ferenczi36 @ 08/13/2008 6:47:51 AM

    My congratulations to Mr Barigazzi, well done, good article: now, at least, a bit of our daily propaganda managed to go through the borders! To all tourists visiting Naples this summer, please take some time to visit not only the centre of the city, but some of the roundabouts - as Mr Barigazzi should have done before writing whatsoever... You'll have the exact perception of our majesty Silvio's miracle. Enjoy!

  • Posted By: Marco28 @ 08/13/2008 6:29:48 AM

    you write : "Berlusconi, now prime minister for the third time since 1994, has an approval rating of 55 percent???higher than Britain's Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy or Spain's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero".
    I don't believe that Zapatero possesses the media in Spain. The Spanish citizens know what happens to Spain. In Italy instead Berlusconi enjoys a concentration of power over information, except rare cases. The Media makes to believe what wants.

  • Posted By: alstoc @ 08/13/2008 6:27:17 AM

    Here you are an interesting video (shot on the 8th of August 2008) showing Mr. Berlusconi's "ability to clean up Naples": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0V5-Fxj2M

    Mr. Berlusconi public announcement proclaiming the end of the garbage emergency in Naples and surrounding areas is simply the Italian version of Mr. Bush's (in)famous "Mission Accomplished" banner relating to the Iraq war. Journalists should give their readers accurate information, not
    government propaganda.

  • Posted By: maro @ 08/13/2008 6:14:17 AM

    In Italy we have no free print (due to last economic measures, the few non-controlled journal will disappear). The only way to inform is internet. Militars are replacing police in our city. The prime minister (who was on trial) will no longer can be on trial. Media are spreading racism and xenofobia. I don't think this article will help democracy.

  • Posted By: maro @ 08/13/2008 6:10:45 AM

    In Italy we have no free print (due to last economic measure, the few non-controlled journal will disappear). The only way to inform is internet. Militars are replacing police in our city. The prime minister (who was on trial) will no longer can be on trial.

  • Posted By: cmaddaloni @ 08/13/2008 6:09:40 AM

    Actually the entire government has done even more. Civil servant health has been dramatically improved since the Government declared that they will not tolerate not motivated absences.

    Sickness of civil servants is now reduced by about 40%. So the Government made the miracle to improve the health of Italians that is already one of the highest in the world.

  • Posted By: GianniS80 @ 08/13/2008 5:27:54 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEYaXOXm7E

  • Posted By: maurizim @ 08/13/2008 5:21:40 AM

    angelacorrias's comment (and other) is the real proof that is false: berlusconi does not own the most of medias! Not only, about frustrating the judiciary system, the "Italian journalist (living in London!)" should demonstrate why, until now, the judges (almost all leftist) were unable to put on jail this kind of awful criminal man! Last, but not least, these "journalists" got responsability of bad opinions the strangers have of Italy. Mauro, italian reader, LIVING IN ITALY!

    • Posted By: GianniS80 @ 08/13/2008 5:26:20 AM

      As well, you too should prove that the judges are almost all leftist rather than feed into what Berlusconi says. Please, just watch this:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEYaXOXm7E

  • Posted By: brianandrew @ 08/13/2008 5:20:48 AM

    Berlusconi is not the first person to attempt to put Italy's house in order.
    Benito Mussolini actually did it in the 1930s using the same methods.

  • Posted By: papelone @ 08/13/2008 5:20:42 AM

    I am appalled, since longtime i have been using to read news on internet because you can pass through the censorship that we have in Italy at the moment but it is so ennoying to understand that the same fake news are on foreign news websites.

  • Posted By: maurizim @ 08/13/2008 5:19:13 AM

    angelacorrias's comment is the real proof that is false: berlusconi does not own the most of medias! Not only, about frustrating the judiciary system, the "Italian journalist (living in London!)" should demonstrate why, until now, the judges (almost all leftist) were unable to put on jail this kind of awful criminal man! Last, but not least, these "journalists" got responsability of bad opinions the strangers have of Italy. Mauro, italian reader, LIVING IN ITALY!

  • Posted By: Leite @ 08/13/2008 5:18:54 AM

    angela corrias doesn't live in Italy and she doesn't know what she is speaking about (or she is too partisan to understand). Mr Berlusconi at the moment doesn't control 90% of the media: RAI is still govenred by left winged executives (because of the former governem), 80% of newspapapers support center-lef opposition. It's true he made a law to protect him from judiciary attacks, but this is due tu the huge attacke of 1994 when his governement fell (and after many years he was cleared). Left winged polticians and journalists confirmed the miracle in Naples, let's hope it will last..

  • Posted By: papelone @ 08/13/2008 5:18:30 AM

    Francesco i don't fully agree with you. You are mentioning Il Giornale as example for the right and Marco Travaglio as example for the left. You forgot to mention that Il Giornale is owned by Berlusconi while Marco Travaglio is not in polithics at all moreover is orientation is on the center right (republican party). he is just a chronist who does his job very well.

  • Posted By: papelone @ 08/13/2008 5:14:48 AM

    Jacopo Barigazzi, i am sure there is a very nice job waiting for you in Mediaset. You may well be chief journalist in TG4 when Emilio Fede will be dead. :)

  • Posted By: papelone @ 08/13/2008 5:13:03 AM

    mauro3000 thank you for showing everybody what berlusconi can very well. Take the piss of the whole Italy for his own purposes. You don't care about dialoguing with people who don't think like you. Your ignorance is what is ruining Italy. Pezzo di merda! I am sure most of people will understand what you are.

  • Posted By: angelacorrias @ 08/13/2008 4:59:51 AM

    I am astonished while reading this article in an important magazine such as Newsweek. Not only the article doesn't mention how the prime minister is frustrating the judiciary system for mere personal purposes, but it also reports as true that the emergency of the rubbish in Naples is solved because Berlusconi "said" it is. I am an Italian journalist living in London and as a journalist I'm 100% sure that you do know that before reporting something as true you should check, even going to see with your own eyes, and I'm also sure that you do know that as Berlusconi controls the 90% of Italian media, he can "say" many thinks. The difference lays on our ability to understand what is true and what is not.

  • Posted By: mauro3000 @ 08/13/2008 4:50:28 AM

    "...e nun ce vonno stà!...e nun ce vonno stà!..." You won't understand this comment, but I assure that someone will do.

  • Posted By: mauro3000 @ 08/13/2008 4:49:11 AM

    "... e nun ce vonno stà!....e nun ce vonno stà!..." You won't understand this comment, but I assure that someone will do.

  • Posted By: mark_02 @ 08/13/2008 4:38:41 AM

    Hello everyone, and sorry for my bad English
    I'm from Perugia Italy and I'm surprised from Giovanni from Milan! dear Giovanni.....Marco Travaglio's articles and videos on youtube...sono faziosi come te....nothing is false on this article...it's just the true...the facts! and I wondering about you not about this article!does he control media and paper? have you ever red..Corriere della sera...repubblica...il mattino...il manifesto o l'unità...e potrei continuare ancora!...Napoles la vergogna Napoletana...it doesn't exist anymore..I know you are sad about...but...all Italy is happy... and if you won't red this newspaper anymore...that's the proof you can only red l'unità....and I think that it's better for everyone! what a burning politic defeat you got!!! a special thanks for newsweek....to tell things in a correct way and to be....FREE.......thank you very much.

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