5 May 2008

Censorship by the regime

The decision by RAI Chairman Petruccioli to reprimand Santoro for the AnnoZero programme dedicated to the signature gathering operation organised by Beppe Grillo on 25 April, in support of the call for a referendum regarding freedom of information, is somewhat disconcerting. Those who watched the programme will surely have thought that a reprimand was in fact called for, but against Sgarbi who, without any reason, continuously insulted the other people present who did not react, and then proceeded to talk nonsense regarding the contributions to the Giornale and regarding the dismissal of Enzo Biagi. Petruccioli did not deem it necessary to highlight Beppe Grillo’s statement regarding the illegality of Rete 4, as sanctioned by the European Court of Justice, which will cost the Italian taxpayer more than 300 million Euro.
This is called censorship, and this in a free Country where the listener has a right to know that two million people took to the streets to sign a petition calling for a referendum and where 1,500,000 signatures were gathered in a just one day, including mine, an event never before witnessed in the history of the Republic. A demonstration on such a scale cannot simply be ignored.
If it is true that you can tell how good the day will be from the early morning, then we can expect that all kinds of attempts will be made to shut down the last few remaining avenues for free information in our Country.
The Italia dei Valori Party is doing everything within its power to ensure that this does not occur, particularly should we obtain the Chairmanship of the RAI Vigilance Committee as we have expressly requested.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information