Strike by RAI journalists against the Meloni Government’s “censorship attempts”

Public television and radio journalists Italy, RAIThis Monday, they carried out a 24-hour strike to “defend their autonomy and independence” from “political control” and “censorship attempts”, while the management accuses the organizing union, Usagrai, of spreading “fake news”.

The strike comes after weeks of protests by workers over what they define as “suffocating control”so that the information serves as“megaphone”from the far-right Executive Giorgia Melonicomplaint to which the political opposition joined, accusing the management of having transformed the RAI into “Telemeloni”.

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“RAI journalists, for the first time in many years, completely refrain from work to protest the decisions of senior management.”is indicated in a statement read this morning on the internet.

Among them it is mentioned that “does not replace those who retire or are on maternity leave” or “does not stabilize precarious workers”, but also that “the RAI “I tried to censor a monologue from April 25th and then, with obvious difficulties, I tried to transform it into an economic issue”, in reference to writer Antonio Scurati’s veto.

“We would rather lose one or more days of salary than lose our freedom, convinced that the freedom and autonomy of public service are a value for everyone. And RAI belongs to everyone”, the workers add.

The company responds, however, that “the decision to go to strike for reasons that has nothing to do workers’ rights “It is framed by ideological and political motivations”in a harsh statement, in which he asks Usigrai “stop promoting fake news that harms the company’s image.”

“was not placed uncensored or choke on information”, adds the management, which has managed to keep the new union Unirai at its side, for which RI “must be relaunched, not dirty”.

O Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) considers “very serious“the accusation of propagation”fake news” for “discredit” for “hundreds of colleagues” and consider it in reality “a massive distraction operation, but it hides what is really happening in the public service”.

The opposition also considers “very serious” O “Attempts” in “discredit” to journalists from RAIthat the Democratic Party was renamed “Telemeloni“, as with “the Scurati case”.

melon He justified Scurati’s veto on his social networks: “The left screams at the regime, RAI responds that it simply refused to pay 1,800 euros (the monthly salary of many employees) for a minute of monologue”to which the writer replied: “That, Mr. President, is violence. Not physical, of course, but always violence. This is the price that must be paid in your Italy today for having expressed own thought?”

Scurati is the most recent of several cases in which melon was accused of censorship or using public media to his advantage, such as the departure of journalist Fabio Fazio from RAI, after four decades of success on the public channel, or the modification of regulations for interventions in electoral campaigns, which ends the time limit television interventions by politicians with institutional positions.

Source: Elcomercio

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