Prime-time Minister?

Peter Fiddick

The conflict of interest in which Silvio Berlusconi is a) prime minister of Italy, b) boss of the media empire Fininvest, controlling the three main commercial TV channels, c) in a position to replace the executives of RAI, the 3-channel state broadcaster, with his own people (as previous governments have done).

Primetime Minister?

Peter FiddickThink of it like this. You are Prime Minister Blair, elected for the first time. You walk into 10 Downing Street, rearrange the furniture, call in your old friends, rivals and dealbrokers and give them their promised Cabinet jobs. 

And then you sit down, with your personal banker, broker, media adviser and lawyer, to address the most critical problem thrown up by your triumph in this democratic election. Do you, being the owner of ITV, C4 and C5 (i.e. virtually all your country's commercial television channels), privatise the BBC? (For as prime minister you now...

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