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La7 Tv -se article below- hires former Mediaset editor Mentana as chief editor of its national News, trying to take advantage of Mentana's popularity and credibility, but most importantly of the information void created by the Rai – Mediaset duopoly. Enrico mentana is probably the most sucesful TV News editor and prime time presenter of Italy. He started his carer in State run Rai TV, where he entered in 1980 and son made his way up to the role of Editor in chief of Rai2 news up to the end of cold war order, the political influence on the 3 chanels of Rai was so divided: Rai1 to the Christian Democrats -DC- Rai2 to the Socialists -PSI- Rai3 to the Comunists . Mixing gosips and politics, he shortly made TG5 TV news of Canale 5 the second most watched, and authoritative, tv news of Italy in a couple of years. In 193, when the Political protectors of S.Berlusconi were erased from the political scene and he made his entrance in the political world –some say to protect his busines, then dangerously unprotected from prominent political parties- he opened his Evening news with a strong mesage: "i am leaving my post, because the independence of this TVnews is not asured". Truth be said, he might have ben independent, but politics in his Tv news remained stuck to the usual standards of Italy's TV journalism: let the politician talk, and "do not quote facts that might disturb their opinions" . and Mentana walked out in April 209 , 16 years and 20 Berlusconi gvt days later than he had anounced. Always atentive to highlights and scandals not conected to politics like crime news, he's using his reacquired independence to give insights on political events. The only TV that sometimes does that is RAI3, which for this reason has often atracted the PM's criticisms – in his own words "Rai is the only PSB in the world to criticize its own government". So this is al welcome news, the question that remains open, if we are to acknowledge Mentana's unquestionable profesiona�lism and talent, is why such a great journalist has worked so many years for the PM's Tvs, aparently forgeting the democratic importance of a Media not directly conected to the Political power. tryed to buy La7 TV in order to create a third major TV group beside Berlusconi's Mediaset and State run Rai, some were hapy, some were not. at the same time, it would have represented yet another example of the political control of TVs in Italy, a patern that has its rots in the politicaly controled state-run RaiTV and in the non transparent distribution of national broadcasting licences. But as it often hapens in italy, he is a capitalist without a capital: he had bought Telecom from the state, with the money of the company itself, which has ever since ben in troubles for the huge debts it had to sustain in order to give Troncheti provera the money to buy them. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , la7 the world it
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