Reply #9: I'm not up date on Italy but the last I heard [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

Berlusconi owned most of their media. I believe they have a corporate media monopoly just as we do.

If that's still the case I believe the result is inevitable.

I don't believe it to be a coincidence that our corporate media has played the race card with their caricature of Reverend Wright by taking snippets from decades of his sermons while ignoring his biography.

The same corporate media has pretty much given radical or controversial statements by white pastors and their political affiliates a free pass ie; Hagee, Falwell, Robertson. Have they said a word about Limbaugh's call for a riot at the Convention? I'm not aware of any reporting on this issue, certainly not with the same attention given to Wright.

In short I believe there is direct correlation between a privatized monopolized information system and the growth of intolerance.