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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the Commissioner for her balanced report.
We await the definition of the objective indicators for media pluralism with great interest. We await it both as MEPs and as Italians, since we are well aware of the extent to which the pluralism, freedom and independence of the media is guaranteed in Italy. The icing on the cake, therefore, would be indicators that convince the Italian left wing, too, of this, because every four or five months, they put up the same argument, always obtaining a vote that I would suggest is none too favourable to their cause.
Most of the newspapers in Italy are left wing and they continuously attack the government, producing propaganda for the opposition. For 30 years in Italy, the left wing has occupied and militarily shared out public service jobs in publicly funded state TV, which is a cosy club for centre-left parties. Every day, every week in Italy, public service broadcasts slander the government and the Prime Minister. If, however, some political exponent of the centre-right should occasionally make the mistake of questioning the newspapers, a cry goes up that freedom of information is under threat.
Something else also happens in Italy: telephone wire taps obtained during legal investigations are regularly published, even when they have nothing whatsoever to do with the investigation. This practice spreads information and infringes citizens’ privacy to such an extent that, a few years ago, the ladies and gentleman of the left protested against this practice. In June 2007, Massimo D’Alema said: ‘The sight of solicitors copying down what has been said and then going to the journalists is indecent, it is like an Arab souk.’ In March 2007, Antonio Di Pietro said: ‘The use of wire taps should be regulated, and penalties imposed to safeguard privacy.’ In February 2008, Walter Veltroni said: ‘The Democratic Party supports an absolute ban on the publication of wire taps until the preliminary hearing is over.’
If, however, the Italian Government today dared to propose a law to parliament that also regulates the right to privacy and imposes penalties on those who infringe the law on the publication of wire taps, the entire left-wing press would be up in arms shouting that it is a scandal, and this would be strongly echoed by the usual ultra-left-wing voices in Europe.
Some left-wing newspapers have been published like this; they have left the front page blank to protest against the gagging law. Only the first and second pages have been left blank, however, because they have published adverts, as usual, on the back page. We therefore advise this left wing, which cannot make up its mind and tells us every six months that freedom of information does not exist, to put its mind at rest and find something more serious to talk about."@en1
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