Berlusconi To "Bombard" Foreign Press With Propaganda

Michael Day | The Independent

The beleaguered Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has ordered a special propaganda unit to "bombard" the foreign press with good news in an attempt to stem the tide of critical headlines overseas.

The media mogul has been infuriated by international coverage of the sex scandals that have beset him.

The Tourism Minister, Michela Vittoria Brambilla, announced yesterday that a group of "young journalists and communications experts" would "monitor all the foreign press, dailies, periodicals and TV, in every latitude from Japan to Peru" and "bombard it with accurate and positive news".

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Comments

[richardfun]

07:39 AM on 10/14/2009

I'm Dutch myself, but I consider this chronically horny septuagenarian an embarassment to the entire continent. And as a journalist, he's the biggest threat to the freedom of the press in the Western world in quite a while.

Only upside to Berlusconi: he's 73 years old, so he shouldn't be around that much longer...

[davidwayneosedach]

12:40 PM on 10/13/2009

Viva Italia! The one country that does not take itself too seriously!