贝卢斯科尼随意利用自己的电视台和新闻媒体来抹黑对手，以致作家罗伯特·萨维亚诺将其称之为他的“抹黑机器 ” 。
Berlusconi’s used his TV stations and newspapers so liberally to smear his opponents that the writer Roberto Saviano called them his macchina del fango or “mud machine.”