Word: berlusconi
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Media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi were once business buddies. Beginning in the mid 1990s they occasionally lunched at one of Berlusconi's villas, plotting ways they could work together to expand their empires...
...trouble started in 2003 after Murdoch established Sky Italia by combining two struggling television outfits. At the time, Italy's free-to-air mogul Berlusconi, who also happened to be the country's prime minister, gave Sky Italia the green light. But Berlusconi, 72, has increasingly used both his political and entrepreneurial muscle to undercut his cable competitor. Murdoch, 77, is now hitting back by going after Berlusconi's big name presenters. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...
...Enrico Mentana, the most respected newsman on Berlusconi's Mediaset network, abruptly announced his resignation after company executives refused his request to cut into a reality television show following the death of Eluana Englaro, a comatose Udinese woman whose right-to-die case had riveted the nation. Almost immediately, Mediaset accused Mentana of striking a deal to go to Murdoch's All-News Italian station...
...Eluana did not die a natural death. She was killed!' SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, reacting to the removal of Eluana Englaro's feeding tube. The 38-year-old woman had been on life support for 17 years...
...Beppino Englaro confirmed his daughter's death to reporters, and then asked to be left alone. He has insisted over the past year that the Vatican must not impose its morality on those outside the Church. As for Italy's political leaders, he had publicly invited both Berlusconi and Napolitano on Saturday to see his daughter for themselves following news reports that she was in rather robust physical shape. "Come to Udine to take full account, in person and in private, of my daughter's real condition." It was a final reminder of at least one difference from the Schiavo...