Thanks to Angie from www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org for sending this tidbit along. Maybe Nader and Kucinich should take note? Although those guys are kind of skinny to begin with...

June 4, 2009
Italy: Party Starts a Hunger Strike
By REUTERS

About 150 politicians from Italy's small, liberal Radical party have begun a hunger strike to protest what they say is a lack of television coverage ahead of an election for the European Parliament. The party said on Wednesday that it wanted RAI, the state TV company, to rebalance its coverage. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi controls most of Italy's mainstream television, through his ownership of the private broadcaster Mediaset and his indirect influence over RAI.