For the BBC's audiences on television and radio news, he guided a path through the complexities of successive waves of education reform.

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

Others on the centre-left, for instance Mr D'Alema's Blairite colleague, Walter Veltroni, are again bemoaning the effectiveness, and unfairness, of Mr Berlusconi's ready access to the air-waves: the tycoon-cum-politician happily floods his own television channels with advertisements in praise of himself.

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