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Berlusconi's Cabinet Defend Sexism Claims Against Fromer Prime Minister

Description:As a media mogul, Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has played a significant role in shaping popular culture in Italy, with public television serving up a heavy diet of scantily clad girls under his influence. Prime time programmes showing women hanging from hooks like meat and crawling under perspex tables whilst the presenters leer at them have caused outcry. Yet several women in politics and show business staunchly defend their leader's integrity. (17:12)

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