Talk:Mani pulite

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This page is not objective at all. Mani Pulite had even negative sides or anyways lots of reasons to be criricized. None of those is exposed in the article. I'll come on this in a fey days.

The final bit of article, is the worst part of it, such sentences as:

"After Berlusconi's victory in 2001, the gradual campaign against judges reached the point where it is not only openly acceptable to criticize judges for having carried out Mani pulite, but it has become increasingly difficult to broadcast opinions favorable to Milan's pool."

Do need arguments to be supported.

On overall this article is the most single-viewed, politicized piece of information, I've seen on Wikipedia. It's a shame.

- i've deleted it since it's just not true


Actually, the text you quote describes just what's happened...and you demonstrate it. Nowadays, a large part of the Italian people consider the whole Mani Pulite as a "judges' attempt at a coup d'état". It is therefore true, that spreading opinions favorable to the pool is nowadays difficult, as you may easily be dubbed as "giustizialista" or accused to be biased. It also true that Berlusconi's influence on the media has had a significant role in the public opinion change of views about Mani Pulite, as the main critics have come from (but not only) Berlusconi's brother's newspaper Il Giornale (which gave great relevance to all the accusations hurled against Di Pietro in the '90s, see Marco travaglio's book "La Scomparsa Dei Fatti" for reference).

I agree that the article could be improved, it currently misses the exact critics expressed during these years against the judges, but I don't think it is as biased as you point out. As far as I know, it is true that all accusations against Di Pietro have been withdrawn, while on the other hand the article fails to include important information on how the single trials against Berlusconi have ended (most of the times in an ambiguous way).

Franco —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.253.174.2 (talk) 10:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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