"I proposed to the Supervisory Commission that the rules of equal conditions also apply to commentators. Travaglio took it badly, as you can see. Yet I think that the rules should apply to everyone. Unless you think that Marco Travaglio and those like him are impartial journalists and not politically aligned. The sentences that condemn Travaglio as a criminal and defamatory demonstrate that he is not credible as an impartial journalist. Even the walls know that he is politically aligned. So why must he be free not to respect a level playing field?". Italia Viva MP
Maria Elena Boschi
, vice-president of the Rai Supervisory Commission, wrote this in a post on Facebook, attaching the first to the front page of Il Fatto Quotidiano. "Impartial and third-party journalists have the right to be recognized as such. But unscrupulous (and prejudiced) commentators do not for me", she concludes.
"In the regulation we have tried to identify rules and criteria, but the evaluation can only be case by case. Not everything can be regimented into a framework of rules". The Agcom president,
Giacomo Lasorella
, said this
, responding to Maria Elena Boschi's observations in the Supervisory Commission, underlining that "the issue was present in all the electoral campaigns and the Authority tried to resolve it in the best way" and that " a case also emerged in the last political elections".
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