Posted on 02/19/2005 12:11:59 AM PST by r5boston
Italy has reacted angrily to a Swedish TV advert which disparages Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's relationship with the media.
The Italian foreign ministry summoned Sweden's ambassador to complain about the spot for Sveriges Television (SVT).
In it, SVT describes itself as a "free" TV channel, in contrast to Italy where Mr Berlusconi "controls 90% of the national TV channels".
The state-funded station said the ad highlighted its own independence.
"Our ambassador, Steggan Wrigstad, was summoned and the Italian government complained about the ad," Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman Asa Arvidson told the BBC's news website.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I'm no fan at how consolidation and centralization of media can influence the electoral process (as well as culturally) but the Swedes are the pot calling the kettle black. Yeah, the socialist can run an objective media- LAUGH! Centralized capitalism usually acts just as bad as the socialists.
The fact is, if the state didn't own the main channels of communication-before Mr. Berlusconi came along, that is-then there would be plenty of dissent.
The socialist concept of the government owning and operating the airwaves, as is the case with RAI, has been the mainstay of most leftist party platforms-in Europe and elsewhere-since radio/television became a viable medium for disseminating information.
If they want to piss and moan about the Prime Minister Berlusconi dominating media content, they should first look in their mirrors, because they are the ones responsible for this situation.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
hey dear swedish TV broadcasters you might want to know that:
1) if Mr Berlusconi didn't get into the TV business, we Italians would have no choice but watching GVT-owned TVs, just like in the good old Soviet Union
2) like everywhere else in the world, GVT-owned TVs and the whole of the MSM in Italy are dominated by marxist activists so I DO thank Mr Berlusconi for the fairness he brought into the world of MSM
3) there is STILL a GVT-owned TV channel whom only purpose is TO MOCK AND SLANDER Mr Berlusconi: this is RAI 3. Watch "cult" TV shows like "blob" and you'll see by yourself!
4) we are the country of Antonio Gramsci, the outstanding communist thinker who suggested that in order for the marxists to take over the world without efforts, they should first take over the culture. And they DID take over the culture, man. Univerisity, newspaper, so-called journalism, are all fortresses of marxist orthodoxy.
5) but that's NOT the end of the story. Marxists in this country have also taken over trade unions and the judiciary. In this country you can be put in jail for months by a marxist judge before you can even defend yourself in a trial
So the point is: as a matter of fact we freedom-loving italians DO need a brave and powerful man like Mr Berlusconi in order to fight communism in this contry (not joking, there are still Italian political parties with the "communist" word in their name, a most of the leftist parties are leaded by former communist leaders)
I thought maybe this was payback for the cruel, insensitive hoax played upon that part of Europe by the Italians decades ago. A lot of people fell for it. A little googling revealed that it was the Brits who done it not the Italians.
To wit, "In 1957, Richard Dimbleby, a newscaster for the BBC's current affairs program, Panorama, reported about the "spring spaghetti crop in Italy." The filmed report showed the spaghetti (some ten pounds of the stuff) being picked from a tree."
Special note. Panorama's spaghetti harvest broadcast was one of the first hoaxes to use the new medium of television.
JFK was one of the first hoaxes by U.S. TV.
Have you seen their "Bikini Team"?
Our commies are bigger than your commies, we've got Hillary.
bump!
Am I the only one who sees the cognitave disconnect in this sentence?
One of the less notable consequences of allowing fascism/Naziism to spread throughout Europe is the disastrous social theories expounded by the Frankfurt School, which have become the template for indoctrinating people into the socialist mindset.
As it's practiced in the United States, its primary vehicle is the contemporary Democratic Party.
yep
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