It is no surpise to hear this when the president of the country also own a huge media empire. It would be interesting to see how his media outlets have portrayed events?

I live in Italy and as an environmentalist trying to get UK newspapers to write about the total destruction of the Italian environment.
I have met Willan he is basically fucking pratt
who like most corporate journalists he has had part of his brain removed to qualify for the job. It's that bit that is necessary to see the light .. as you can see by his article

there are still a lot of people being held illegally down here despite being 'officially' released from prison they
were transferred to pavia police station .. HELP THEM !

Tuesday 24th July, Italy, Planet Earth

50,000 people in the streets of Rome against the police
15,000 people in Naples
20,000 people in Bologna
20,000 people in Milan
10,000 people in Genoa
plus hundreds of small cities saw protests against
the police.

Where were all the supporters of the Police?

This clown Willan is a very doggy character. He knows very well what the Italian state is capable of, having ten years ago written a book called the ‘Puppet Masters' (London, 1991) about the ‘Strategy of Tension' in Italy (see the review of this book by Larry O'Hara, ‘Blinded by the Light’, in issue 23 of the British para-political magazine Lobster -  http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/issue23.htm ) Whilst useful for English readers who didn't know about the activities of the Italian ruling class and their 'intelligence service' thugs - i.e. the bombing of the Piazza Fontana in 1969, the assassination of Aldo Moro, the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980, various other bombings and assassinations ostensibly carried out by extra-parliamentary groups of the Left and Right, and the role of the 'P2' Masonic lodge (of which Berlusconi was - still is? - a member) in all this mayhem - Willan's book didn't say anything of substance that wasn't already in the public domain. It relied heavily on the Italian Situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s analysis on the Strategy of Tension, without acknowledging that his book ‘On Terrorism and the State’ is available in English translation (full text not available on line. See  http://www.notbored.org/italian-preface.html  http://www.notbored.org/french-preface.html for translated introductions.) Most interestingly, Willan’s book was marred by outrageous disinformation (e.g. the allegation, never retracted, that the Autonomist intellectual Tony Negry was an FBI agent without the slightest piece of solid evidence, and an at times childishly naive, reactionary tone - the Autonomist inclining US 'Zero Work' collective were labelled 'preachers of evil'!) It’s worth doing a search on the Guardian web site under Willan’s name. This shows just how well he know what the Italian state is capable of, and therefore just what a lying scumbag he is.

Anyone interested in the Strategy of Tension should check out, in addition to Willan’s book (handled with due care and attention!), Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s ‘On Terrorism and the State’ (London, 1982), Stuart Christie’s small book ‘Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist’ (London, 1984), and these links:-

 http://www.poptel.org.uk/cgi-bin/dbs2/statewatch?query=gladio&mode=records&row_id=7255
 http://www.notbored.org/reichstag.html