Christian critique

While the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana took an extremely critical tone toward the Italian government last week, the US news magazine Newsweek celebrated Berlusconi's "Miracle In 100 Days". Those differing views come under the loupe of the daily paper La Repubblica: "The administration should concern itself with the content of the criticism, not spout off a psalm about ideological prejudices and socialist infiltration." Many citizens share the opinion of the Christian paper, La Repubblica writes, but not the "superficial and generously triumphal proclamations of the American magazine Newsweek." It has to do with "a controlled operation of image-building, conducive to transatlantic export of the smoke and mirrors of the 'made in Italy' label, but it fails to address the removal of trash and the fight against criminality." Italy's government is based "officially on the power of the media, particularly television. Anyone who does not accept Berlusconi's proclaimed values or non-values of Communism driven to an extreme will be excommunicated – like Famiglia Cristiana."

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