It is very very difficult to over-emphasise the incredible figures that Italian state producer Rai had on interviewing Patrizia d’Addario, the escort girl at the centre of the Berlusconi scandal.
At peak, more than eight million people tuned in to watch, in an astounding number for viewers of Italian television (over the entire show it is estimated that 18 million viewers tuned in).
Many interpretations of these figures exist, all of them political.
But regardless of your politics, it can only be a very positive thing for Italy that the information flowed freely, without restraint, on public television; there for the viewing of the Italian population which has been hamstrung by pathetic entertainment and insulted by a president intent on promoting his own media empire and dictating the propaganda which promotes his ego.
Below is a video of the program and interview with Patrizia d’Addario so you can judge for yourself its seriousness, or lack of it, without necessarily forming an opinion of the particulars surrounding the escort girl Berlusconi scandal.
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