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The journalist Enzo Biagi left the RAI out of free will … he did it for the money.

— Silvio Berlusconi

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As reported in "Veteran Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, 87, dies in Milan" in Herald Tribune (6 November 2007); Enzo Biagi was one of the journalists that had to leave the RAI after the Editto Bulgaro of in 2002, in which he was accused by Berlusconi of making criminal use of television.

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