"An attack on the journalistic profession; a further way to put public service information under tight control."

The Rai journalists' union is raising the alarm after reading a circular from the company's CEO announcing the commissioners for the Genres' journalistic programs, those "who produce some of the most watched television programs on public television." In a document released yesterday, the CEO "announces that editorial control over the programs is no longer with the Genre Directors or the hosts and authors of the programs, but is entrusted to unspecified editorial structures ," denounces Usigrai, pointing the finger at the document written "in ambiguous and approximate terms. It is not clear what these new structures are, who these editorial managers are, on the basis of what requirements and skills they are chosen. What are they for and why now? To control, as requested by politicians or, worse, competing TVs, the few programs that still provide information? To respond to the requests of those who cannot tolerate journalists who ask questions? In this way, we risk wiping out the work that over 150 journalists have been doing for years on network programs, still without a masthead. To place him under the authority of an administrative coordinator, in clear violation of the Press Law which requires the presence of a registered newspaper, to guarantee the principles of independence of the journalistic profession".

The opposition in Parliament supports the union's protest. It is "an obvious control over those who provide information in the public service. At this point it is absolutely urgent that the Rai executives be summoned to the Supervisory Commission to explain a choice that sounds like a threat from the right to the public service company" attacks the Democratic Party senator Francesco Verducci, member of the Supervisory Commission.

"Not satisfied with the catastrophe of the ratings of the programs on which it has already got its hands, the Meloni government now claims to control those that work . We will ask, as the Democratic Party, to listen to the leaders of Viale Mazzini in the Supervisory Commission. The decline of the public service will be paid for by the citizens. It is not acceptable. Stop before it is too late ", also declares Sandro Ruotolo, responsible for Information in the national secretariat of the Democratic Party.

This circular, also agrees the M5S representative in the Rai supervisory commission Dolores Bevilacqua, «cannot be read in any other way than as an attempt to domesticate broadcasts that respond exclusively to the right/duty to inform citizens ».

(Online Union)

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