17 April 2001 Even the big boys, like the Czech Republic’s media mogul Zelezny, have to fall sometime. “Will the boss of Nova soon be wearing prison stripes?” blared the front-page headline of the Czech tabloid Blesk on 12 April. Hard as it was to believe, Vladimir Zelezny, the country’s media mogul supreme–the Central European Rupert Murdoch–had been charged with […]

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