Videocracy
Feb. 12th, 2010 05:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Lele Mora, Italian television agent, in the documentary “Videocracy.”
Prime Minister, Primo Mogul
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: February 12, 2010
There are moments in “Videocracy,” a queasy-funny and unapologetically biased look at the televisual world that the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has created, when it feels as if you were watching a transmission from another planet. A media mogul who has a monopoly hold on Italian television and was elected for a third term in 2008, Mr. Berlusconi helped put the boob (and lots of them) on the Italian tube and is often in the news himself for his political machinations, outrageous observations — Mussolini sent people away on “holiday”; President Obama is “suntanned” — sexcapades and persistent charges of corruption. More
