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According to a number of (predominantly-American) social scientists, partynewspapers declined as the capital costs of launching a newspaper increased with developments in printing technology. The parties couldn’t pony up the money, so they left.

You would think, following the same logic, that television would be pretty immune to party-politicisation: after all, the start-up costs are immense, aren’t they?

At least, they used to be immense. Greater bandwidth and the sharply falling costs of camera technology means that broadcasting isn’t so expensive anymore. It’s certainly not expensive to you if you have support from the state, and are content to settle from limited hours of broadcasting on satellite.

And so, somehow, Massimo D’Alema believes that his  faction within the Democrats can be helped if he and some friends run a television station. It’s pretty audacious, I must say.