[Media-watch] Leading RAI newsreader resigns over Berlusconi manipulation

[John Meed]

Dear Mediawatch

Italy's most famous news anchor has resigned from RAI, the state
broadcaster, for which she has been the public face for nearly 20 years, in
protest at the corporation's increasing susceptibility to manipulation by
Silvio Berlusconi...

The last straw for Ms Gruber was her abrupt recall to Rome two weeks ago, in
the middle of another stint in Baghdad. She had offended the government by
referring to the allied forces in Iraq as an "occupation force" and recent
violent resistance to the Americans as "Iraqi resistance". Apparently, the
terms the government would have preferred were "the coalition bringing
liberty and democracy to Iraq" and "rebels".

For the full article, see:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=516309

John