21 March 2006

Impudent Media

Italia dei Valori must be so very frightening to the media that it creates a total black out. Perhaps because it has no candidates that have been convicted, as nearly all the other political parties do. Perhaps it’s because its members are not being tried for mafia crimes like the members of other parties. Perhaps it’s because Italia dei Valori doesn’t represent economic or industrial powers. Perhaps because Italia dei Valori is not backed by red co-operatives or Trades Unions. Perhaps it’s because Italia dei Valori wants to affirm the principle of the rule of law in Italy without stopping in front of the so-called strong powers.

I want to leave aside the private TV channels and the print media controlled by the President of the Council since they are used exclusively to favour his re-election, not to provide information, a real banana-state situation.
But I can’t avoid being surprised and to feel a certain nausea in the intolerable and antidemocratic behaviour in relation to myself and to Italia dei Valori on the part of the most important newspapers in this country and on the part of the RAI.

It is correct to indicate the people who manage these organisations and the positions they hold as responsible for this reprehensible behaviour, they are:
- Paolo Mieli, Director of Il Corriere della Sera
- Ezio Mauro, Director of la Repubblica
- Giulio Anselmi, Director of la Stampa
- Claudio Petruccioli, President of the RAI

It’s not difficult for me to think that these gentlemen respond to a logic of the parties and of power that is completely outside that of Italia dei Valori and that this and only this is the reason for their behaviour.
In the most recent opinion polls, Italia dei Valori is shown to be growing, to be the fourth party in the Unione after Margherita, DS and Rifondazione, and yet it is not visible in the newspapers. My most recent interview goes back perhaps to the time of Mani Pulite (Clean Hands), and in TV I often appear holding up the “par condicio” law, as seen for my presence on the Ballarò transmission.
Unione and CDL in this pincer action towards Italia dei Valori operate the same logic and with the same fears: to have to be in Parliament with an honest force for which the words “Rule of Law” are more important than anything.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Politics