Rupert Murdoch and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, owners of media empires, are in a legal tussle. Some Italians are said to see Murdoch as the strongest opposition to Berlusconi.They are enemies, yet so much alike, media tycoons fiddling with empires and battling over market shares and airways.The edge, though, goes to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, owner of his country’s largest TV corporation and head of a center-right government that regulates a network run by his voracious rival, Rupert Murdoch. The high-stakes tussle, which would make an enticing miniseries, is a saga of billionaires, pornography, technology, conflicted interests and the future of television in Italy and perhaps Europe.
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