Virtually no news was published in Italy today as journalists went on strike against a bill curbing the use of wiretaps and their publication proposed by the government of Silvio Berlusconi. The FNSI press union deemed the strike a “day of silence” in order to “show the kind of silence that the law would impose.”
Starting at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) newswires came to halt and Internet news sites stopped being updated, while all-news TV channels switched to pre-recorded programmes, promising only a mid-day and an evening newscast. On the public all-news channel RaiNews 24, a banner read “journalists are on strike against the gag-law until tomorrow at 0600,” and with a few exceptions, dailies were not to be found on sale.
(Source: AFP)
on Jul 9th, 2010 at 17:34
Sad day when you agree with Silvio Berlusconi, but when journalists think they cannot gather news without wire taping people, you have to ask what planet they are on.
In the UK I know the News of The World thinks this is “OK” to do, but most other news orginisations don’t.