The first TV diva of the post-Berlusconi era

According to the left-liberal daily La Repubblica it is not only commercial competition from Pay TV station Sky that Silvio Berlusconi fears and that has prompted him to propose raising VAT on such stations to 20 percent. He also fears professional competition from journalist Ilaria D'Amico: "Berlusconi ... wants to stop 'that woman' and has commissioned polls to find out what the public thinks of her ads. For 'that woman' is making Berlusconi tremble in his shoes because anyone would think she was a creation of Berlusconi at his best, Berlusconi the media guru, but with one important difference: that 'that woman' Ilaria D'Amico has a reputation for ... not being open to bribery. ... Berlusconi envies Sky for having such a journalist; he fears she could be the first TV diva of the post-Berlusconi era. One that is also liked by the Left because she earnestly but at the same time naively suggests to the Left that the future lies not in acting against Berlusconi but rather in moving beyond him. ... With professionalism and charm."

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