18 April 2006

State Information

In recent days I believe that everyone has noticed the dangerous situation for Italian democracy due to the TV channels being controlled by the CDL.
If we had a proper environment for deciding on news coverage then statements by Calderoli would have been ignored. He is even proud of being the one behind the “porcata” law (recent electoral law described by him in a vulgar way). Nobody notices that the party of the former President of the Council got 5.7% less than it did in the last national elections, this is almost 2 million votes less.

Declarations like that of the “bad loser”, the former President of the Council: “The election result “must” change….” Are worthy of someone executing a “coup d’état”. Unless journalists were serving him, they would have simply written words totally condemning that statement. And yet that hasn’t happened and some of the TV news and other media (for instance that controlled by the Mondadori Group) is in fact a propaganda tool of one political movement. Unfortunately, many believe them.

It will be impossible to do anything in this new legislature unless the citizens can exercise their right to having balanced news coverage. Without a law on the conflict of interests and a re-examination of the way TV and radio frequencies are allocated, the next government will be a hostage to news that is slanted to one side.
This issue must take priority and must be tackled straight away and with utter determination.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information