The director of Tg Uno Gian Marco Chiocci in the crosshairs of the Democratic Party. The controversy was triggered by a report aired in the Sunday edition at 13:30 p.m. "on an initiative - explained in a note Pd parliamentarians in the Rai Supervisory Commission - organized by the youth movement of Fratelli d'Italia, National Youth, and elevated to a patriotic cultural event".
The Tg1 report criticized by the Democratic Party was about a ceremony at the Roman cemetery of Verano: "As every year for 40 years, more than three hundred young people of National Youth," explained the comment of the report, parade to pay homage "to those who gave their lives for Italy, from the Risorgimento to the victims of the Years of Lead to the victims of terror to the patriots of the great wars."
The Democratic Party has asked for "the immediate hearing of Chiocci" in the Rai Supervisory Commission: "Come and explain if he has changed his role and if he has become the spokesman for the right-wing youth movements that are based in Via della Scrofa. The measure is full."
Exponents of all the center-right parties have lined up in defense of Chiocci: those of the Democratic Party are "absurd positions - the leaders of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber and Senate, Tommaso Foti and Lucio Malan wrote in a note - Such as that of asking for the hearing of the director of Tg1 guilty, according to the Democratic Party, of having aired a report to report on a demonstration, which has been held for decades, organized by the National Youth in honor of the victims who have fallen for the Homeland.
Would the Democratic Party want to dictate the lineup of services?" And Senator Giorgio Maria Bergesio, leader of the Lega in Vigilanza Rai: "The truth is that the left does not accept that there are journalists who are not subjects of the Nazarene and free to do their job like the director Chiocci, to whom all our support goes." Also for Forza Italia "it is not up to the Democratic Party to decide what can be aired and what not, if it comes to terms with it," said the group leader in the Rai Supervisory Commission, Roberto Rosso.
But for the Democratic Party "60 seconds of pure rhetoric were aired as a tribute not to the dead, but to the young people of Fratelli d'Italia - Chiara Braga and Francesco Boccia, leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, wrote in a note - In 40 years the public service had never been bent to the propaganda of a political force, But the right that occupies the news no longer has any brakes." In a note, the UniRai union defended the service: "We will not allow a party secretariat, that of the Democratic Party, to think of influencing the summary of TG1 or any other Rai newspaper. Telling the story of an initiative promoted by a youth political group is part of the freedom of editorial choices."
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