Tobias Jones

Tobias Jones, a former editorial assistant at the LRB, is the author of The Dark Heart of Italy, Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football and The Po: An Elegy for Italy’s Longest River.

Letter

Why not Berlusconi?

21 March 2002

The one thing which no one ever mentions when comparing, as they often do, Berlusconi and Mussolini is TV. Mussolini’s propaganda looks like child’s play set beside the subliminal messages which Mediaset broadcasts for hours every day. TV is Berlusconi’s ‘electronic balcony’, from which he can woo and subdue millions of voters. Switch on the TV in your hotel next time you’re in Italy and...

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