The Democratic Party announces battle on Rai: “Unbalanced news programs, every limit has been exceeded. Unacceptable sequence of serves against us”

The Democratic Party on the attack. “This evening on TG1 at 8pm an unacceptable sequence of reports against the Democratic Party was broadcast. It is not information when only those who attack the main opposition party are given a voice without giving the floor to one of its representatives and it is not tolerable that all this happens on a public service network. We will ask our representatives in the supervisory commission to demand explanations of what happened”, he denounces Chiara Bragaleader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber of Deputies.

The members of the Democratic Party in the bicameral Rai Supervisory Commission join the chorus: “The public service enters the electoral contest with a straight leg. Even today, unbalanced news programs and a distorted representation of local, isolated events which still have to be verified, accompanied by silence on events of national exponents, some even with government positions under investigation or already under trial. We will ask for explanations and for Rai top management to report to the supervisory authorities”, they say. It also makes itself felt Sandro Ruotolo, information manager in the PD national secretariat: “You have far exceeded the limit of decency. The most viewed, most authoritative edition, that of Tg Uno, this evening exceeded all limits. He distinguished himself with reports on the Piedmont Democratic Party and then Bari. With the world burning, Gaza, Ukraine, and in the name of the news, he threw avalanches of mud at the Democratic Party two months before the European vote. We will protest everywhere, starting with the parliamentary supervisory commission. We are 60 days away from the European vote, let alone what will happen in the next few weeks. What does the viewer know about the story Santanchè? E di Delmastro? And what did you understand about the bridge over the Strait of Messina? Rai di Giorgia Meloni does not offer guarantees of third party information – attacks Ruotolo – We ask third party authorities to carefully monitor radio and television information. Rai is no longer a public service. It became TeleMeloni”.

Per Irene Manzi, national head of the PD school, “it is disturbing that the main public service news program has been siding with the government and against the opposition for months now. Information, if we can use this term, partial, unbalanced, blatantly biased, used to attack the main opposition force in Parliament. We will raise the issue in the supervisory commission: in a democratic country the main public service news program cannot side with shamefully biased and uncontroversial reports. The information offered by the main Rai news program is not credible and not worthy of public service”. Also for Annalisa Corrado, national manager of the Democratic Party for the environment and ecological conversion, “tg1 has surpassed itself” with “two reports of pure attack against the Democratic Party that have nothing to do with information. The citizens who pay the license fee cannot watch this type of information, we are now pure propaganda, measures must be taken to restore dignity to one of the historic news programs of our memory, we cannot continue like this, it almost becomes grotesque” , adds Corrado.

The president of the Forza Italia senators responds to the accusations Maurizio Gasparri, member of the Rai Supervisory Commission: “Exponents of the Democratic Party insult Tg1 which tells the truth about the moral degradation that overwhelms the left from Bari to Turin. Instead of insulting free information, the students of Telekabul and the children of sanctorism and Ranuccism should apologize to the Italians for Sasà, Emiliano, Decaro. There are those who provide free information and those who go to the homes of the bosses’ sisters. Tg1 provides free information. Important exponents of the Democratic Party have chosen the second hypothesis”. Even the Unirai union, the internal organization created in contrast with Usigrai, defends the newspapers: “We renew the invitation to Ruotolo to the summary meetings of TG1. In addition to organizing ridiculous sit-ins, his party should think about recovering credibility on all fronts instead of harassing those who are just doing their job.”

Only a few days ago the Cdr of Rainews 24 had taken sides against the Melonian director Paolo Petrecca accusing him of having “omitted the prosecutor’s statements Gratteri on the psycho-aptitude tests of magistrates”. She disappeared from the news media.