Before Donald Trump, there was Silvio Berlusconi, who used a commercial TV monopoly (and arguably the world's trashiest television) to become prime minister of Italy, giving him control over the state pubcaster RAI (he didn't give up ownership of his Mediaset) and the opportunity to preside over one of the world's most corrupt governments, until he got thrown into part-time jail in 2014--the story from NPR's Sylvia Poggioli (and I thought she retired):
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/1168143250/silvio-berlusconi-obituary?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20230612&utm_term=8577644&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=10634280&orgid=309&utm_att1= -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7dc98843-9a3d-4f2f-a4e8-a1ce6cba6204n%40googlegroups.com.
