Rai, Mattarella: “The public service responds only to citizens who pay the license fee. No to abuse and division”

“The public service sees the extraordinary mission of being recognized as a reliable source for the citizens who support it with the payment of the license fee renewed, its responsibility towards them remaining intact, to be a framework for freedom and a space for inclusion, where originality, professionalism , innovation, pluralism and non-division, may continue to unfold without abuse”. Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarellain a passage of his message on the occasion of the States General of the public service.

“Never in the past has the power of techne affected the entire information system and the social and therefore democratic dimension of every citizen in today’s terms. In a time in which the definition of our daily horizon passes through algorithms, for their reductive nature of reality to conflicting visions, the public information service has the duty to present itself as a tool that portrays and critically interprets the complexity of authentic reality, essential for paths of democratic participation”, he added.

“In the diversity of individual national experiences, public service media contribute to animating the liveliness of pluralism, with the authority that derives from the aim of being recognized by citizens as a source inspired by values ​​of independence, autonomy, freedom and multiplicity of voices” , so the head of state.

Floridia: “Stop controversy. Free Rai from the executive role”

“We must raise the level of debate and lower the level of controversy. There are times when we must find a solution to save what is precious to us. The public service is a common good that must be recognized by politics in a transversal way”. The president of the Rai Supervisory Commission said this, Barbara Florida.

“A reform of the public service system is urgent. – he continues – All the reform proposals have already been included in the eighth Senate Commission. It is always said that it is necessary to free Rai from the parties, certainly at least free it from the executive of shift”.

The meaning of the two days “is to shine a light on the public service which – Floridia remarked – is a common good, we must preserve it and ensure that certain and stable resources are guaranteed in the world and that the concept of public service in the digital ecosystem is redefined “.