Global Media Democracy (issue #67 Sep-Oct 2006)
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| Newly elected Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi says he wants to shake
| up Italy's strangled media. The idea would have once seemed a fantasy in
| a country ruled for five years by the many-tentacled Silvio Berlusconi,
| who held political control over the public broadcaster and financial sway
| over six of Italy's seven main television channels.
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| "This is about fair competition," Prodi said in an interview with
| Advertising Age. "I have always said that in order to have a democracy
| you must have competition, and the Italian television sector is for all
| intents and purposes a duopoly ? and it's practically a monopoly in terms
| of advertising."
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http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/67/Global_Media_Democracy.html
Contextually related (one recent example among many more):
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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