> The NY Times reported today that "the Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries."

Italian people's opinion will follow either one of these ways:

(a) America's Heaven: they're so good people that they tell you when they're going to lie.

(b) America's Hell: they're so bad and [censored] that they they tell you when they're going to lie.

(c) Since when do Americans copy from Italians?

Our Chief of Government, Mr. Silvio Berlusconi (he and President Bush met in Genoa for the G8 Meeting last July, and again last September) is the Italian newsprint industry tycoon (a sort of Rupert Murdoch in Italy and Spain), having the direct control of three of the six major TV broadcasting companies and - through the Mondadori Editoriale group - also controls one of the most circulated newspaper.
Of course, he has a theory by which the opposition (the left-oriented coalition known as the "Olive Tree") controls the media to run a campaign against him, so he's forced to use HIS resources to influence his supporters about what good things his government is doing to Italy.

After this, I may rewrite the previous statements as follows:

(a) America's Heaven: they're so good people that they do the same things as Mr. Berlusconi does.

(b) America's Hell: they're so bad and [censored] that they do the same things as Mr. Berlusconi does.

(c) Since when do Americans copy from Mr.Berlusconi that more than once admitted to copy from Americans?

AP.