Facing their own troubles, Berlusconi and Murdoch square off
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/08/facing-their-own-troubles-berlusconi.html
At the British parliamentary hearing into News Corp.'s phone-hacking scandal last month, Rupert Murdoch defended his family, arguing that it oversees a vast media empire — one that extended to Italy, where, he noted, there was "a particularly difficult situation and a particularly tricky competitor."
As it happened, the trickster in question, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was watching the televised hearing. But rather than taking offense, Murdoch's onetime friend and now bitter rival called the head of Mediaset, the flagship television company in which Berlusconi has a controlling interest, to discuss Murdoch's diminished physical state.
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