This article (part 1; part 2) reports on the liaison between the media system in Italy and the government of Mario Monti. From Berlusconi to the “professors”, few changes appears in the uncritical support to power by major media in Italy.
Definitively not a watchdog, now warming up the engine to push for a second government led by Mr. Monti or Mr. Passera in the 2013 elections, with the unvoiced support of major parties.