The choice of different regions to include some professional categories, such as lawyers, among the priority ones in vaccination campaigns has been discussed on social media.
However, the possible inclusion of journalists in particular is generating criticism, so much so that the hashtag #vaccinoaigiornalisti has been among the trends of Twitter for this morning.
Sicily and Campania had announced the inclusion of journalists as an essential public service in phase two of the vaccination in recent days.
A few weeks ago, the president of the Order of Journalists, Carlo Verna, posed the problem "of the essential service that journalists carry out not without risk, in the various expressions of the profession, from those who interview or seek news, to photographers and videomakers", specifying that he had waited "with great discretion, despite the solicitations from some territories, the evaluations on the priorities in vaccinations, believing that we could not talk about us until after having concluded the phase concerning doctors and the protection of the school system".
Now these positions have created indignation on the social network, in light of the fact that the fragile and categories considered most exposed have not yet been vaccinated, bringing back the accusations of belonging to a caste against journalists, also ended, in some cases, targeted for the information provided on the occasion of the latest events related to the Astrazeneca vaccine.
Several journalists have written that they do not agree with the choice to include journalists among the priority categories.
Among the most popular was the post by the director of TgLa7, Enrico Mentana.
"I am ashamed as I read that there are those who have asked to include journalists among the categories with vaccination precedence - he wrote on Facebook -. Still most of the elderly must receive the first dose, the President of the Republic has awaited his turn seventy days, and we should join the coven of skip-the-line that we tell and denounce every day? A little consistency, a little dignity.
The question and answer between the journalist of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Selvaggia Lucarelli, and the colleague of Focus, Margherita Fronte, was also discussed.
"I'm not asking for the vaccine, but this thing that journalists are in the list of non-useful categories according to the journalists themselves I'm sorry - wrote the first -. In this year of fear, we were the ones who told people what was happening, to denounce, we were not useful. Necessary ".
"It is an inappropriate request, except for those who report from the intensive wards - replied the second -. The carers should come before us. Even those who drive public transport, cashiers, taxi drivers and many others. The vaccine does not it is the medal for the work done. It serves another purpose ".