Word: conflict-of-interest
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Grasping the scope of Silvio Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest problem requires a hypothetical analogy. Parallels in the real world simply don't exist. Business media mogul Michael Bloomberg becoming mayor of New York, for example, is small polenta compared to the Italian Prime Minister owning his country's three major private television networks. Imagine instead Bloomberg as majority shareholder in both CBS and NBC making a successful run for the U.S. presidency - and then refusing to give up his stake in the networks once he moved into the White House...
...office, Berlusconi is still playing by his own rules. Unlike Bloomberg after his election victory, the Italian Prime Minister has refused to submit his vast holdings - which are valued at $12 billion and also include various publishing, insurance and real-estate enterprises - to the scrutiny of a binding conflict-of-interest watchdog agency. A campaign promise to resolve the issue within 100 days of taking office last spring has come and gone with Berlusconi sitting on it like a bully on the playground's only kickball. The sole solution the Prime Minister said he will consider is to establish...
...board was chosen over the summer by Thompson and Rosenthal. Summers could not partake in the decision because Rosenthal is his personal physician, creating a conflict-of-interest...
...mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully to Coppola's company. Drew McWeeny, an aspiring screenwriter who reviews for AintItCool as "Moriarty," insists that although he too is trying to sell the studios his work, "I'm not going to sugarcoat my reviews" of studio releases. All the same, conflict-of-interest rules and editors to enforce them provide safeguards so that readers don't have to rely on the promises of writers that they play fair...
...minorities. The magazine quotes him as describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff members from reporting negative stories about his friends and violated his own conflict-of-interest rule by selling a screenplay to Paramount. Bart denied the allegations...