The conflict of interest
If politics becomes a clash between fans and supporters of Berlusconi Travaglio, Grillo Santoro and then it becomes very shabby, in my humble opinion. We talk about the fee, which is invoked by Santoro as the title that subscribers should be used to claim that Year Zero should be on the air. Why not abolish it? Why three national public networks? Because all three are financed by fees but also from advertising? Was it not precisely the fact that there were three networks divided up by national parties on the pretext for laws that have thus blocking the television duopoly competition in the industry? In this, from left, is to recognize that, at least initially, what was the Fininvest and Mediaset now has been good for the country, the pluralism of information? In this, from right, is not to recognize that it is a sick system that in which the owner of half of the national television (as well as publisher, a building contractor, president of a football team, an entrepreneur in financial services and banking and so on) is could become the leader of a party and even president of the council? If the powers are concentrated in one or a few people the freedom of all falls! This applies today to the Italian situation, but it is always and everywhere: it is a general discussion and not antiberlusconiano. I remember that in 1993 Professor Marcello Pera, already approaching the Knight, was clearly stated in public that a conflict of interest issue was that Berlusconi had to solve at the earliest, before coming to the 1994 elections. We are at 2010 and Pera in the meantime, he was President of the Senate and seems to have forgotten his words to be liberal. In the same way the left has never done anything to apply the principle (already in current law) that prevents a dealer from a public good (in this case the ether) to become chairman of the board.
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