Un articolo noiosamente moralista  della BBC contro la nostra tv e contro Sanremo. Mark! what an annoying moralist you are!

Italy’s women still wait for change under Mario Monti

By Mark Duff BBC News, Milan

Silvio Berlusconi, may be gone, but Italian women still face an uphill battle for respect in the face of what some commentators describe as a “damagingly” sexist media.

Just over a year ago, one million women took to the streets and piazzas of towns and cities across Italy.

They were angry at their portrayal on television and in the press as little more than the playthings of rich and powerful old men, and at the tawdry revelations of then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s shenanigans.

This week, as Italian men handed out sprigs of fragrant yellow mimosa to mark the Festa della Donna (Women’s Day), much on the surface may appear to have changed.

Mr Berlusconi has gone, and the new technocratic government presents a very different picture of the role of women at the highest level of politics.

Mr Berlusconi’s poster girl of women in politics was the equal opportunities minister, Mara Carfagna, a former topless model and Miss Italia finalist.

For all her charm and the seriousness of her campaign against stalking, many Italians still saw her as political eye candy for the flirtatious …