Media News - Friday, September 04, 2009

Berlusconi sex exposé forces editor to resign

The editor of a daily newspaper that is the mouthpiece of the powerful Italian Bishops' Conference sensationally resigned Thursday, less than a week after being exposed as a convicted sex pest by the daily newspaper controlled by the Berlusconi family. The attack on Dino Boffo, the editor of the Catholic Church's daily, L'Avvenire ("The Future"), was seen as evidence that the gloves are truly off in the confrontation between the Vatican and Italy's scandal-struck Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Boffo announced his resignation following a campaign against him in Il Giornale, the newspaper owned by the Berlusconi family, in which he was described as a "renowned homosexual" who had been fined for harassing the wife of a man he was pursuing. He said that he was quitting to spare his family further embarrassment and to stop a war of words that had "astonished" ordinary Italians. With Boffo's resignation, Mr Berlusconi was able to claim the first scalp in his rapidly escalating battle with the church and the media, which began when a string of sex scandals struck Mr Berlusconi himself. Mr Boffo's paper has published several articles strongly critical of Mr Berlusconi's behaviour. (The Independent)

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