19 October 2007

Thank you for your trust in me

Repubblica.it has published the results of a survey about trust in Ministers and in the main political parties in Italy. I am citing the survey to say thanks to those who gave me the top position as a Minister and those who gave Italia dei Valori the top position as a party. I would like to point out that it has not been subsequently reported by any other means of communication after that.
The survey looks at important information for the Government and for the parties, but it has been ignored by the media. That fact no longer surprises me. Newspapers and TV are only partially free in Italy.
Confirmation of this is given by a recent research report from “Reporters Without Borders”: in the classification about the freedom of information, Italy comes at just 35th position in the world, landing up between Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia and below all the countries of the “old continent”. The issue of real information is still today the priority for the country. But unfortunately this is not yet the priority for the government and it is even less than ever for the opposition under the leadership of Berlusconi who has concessions for the radio and TV frequencies in an obvious situation of conflict of interests.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information