“We are against censorship, an odious practice and the most useless thing in democracy”. Thus began the editorial by Alessandro Sallusti published in Libero. Transmissions to Rai by the director of the Milanese newspaper about the case – opened and closed from viale Mazzini in a few days – of Filippo Facci, a journalist guilty of having used “an inopportune sentence” when reporting – precisely in the pages of Libero – “correctly” the story involving the son of Senate President Ignazio La Russa. Director who starts talking about democracy and censorship: “All ideas, even the most inconvenient ones, have the right to circulate freely” but censorship if “applied to alternating current” is no longer such but a “political weapon, an inappropriate weapon”.
To what or to whom does Sallusti refer? “Anyone who says or writes inappropriate or decomposed things on any subject cannot appear on state TV” because it is “incompatible with the code of ethics of that company”: Sallusti agrees with this “questionable principle”, but here is the double standard of Viale Mazzini. “It does not seem that Rai has canceled the program for the next season that will be entrusted to Roberto Saviano” who not only in the past called Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “bastard” – something for which there is a libel lawsuit” but also “increased the dose against Minister Matteo Salvini and the entire majority”. Rackete: “What effrontery this minister of the underworld is protected by his associates in Parliament… the parliamentary gangs that defend him are the strength of his lies…”, commented the journalist on his social profile.
Inopportune phrases after inopportune phrases and, at this point, Sallusti goes on the attack: “either Rai’s deontological code considers it correct to give the bastard to the prime minister, undermine an important minister and define the “bands” of the government parties – that is “its pro tempore shareholders”, stresses the leader – “or it means that someone, but only someone, in the country and in the state of the state of insult and unspecified moral and cultural superiority”. As we said: two weights, two measures. An unspecified superiority that, according to Sallusti, is “a kind of poetic license that applies to Saviano but not to Facci” and comments the director “which applies to those on the left and not those who think differently”.
Source: IL Tempo
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