Italian television fears critical voices

The supervisory board of Italian public television broadcaster Rai has announced it plans to cut out certain scenes of a planned political series made by bestselling author and journalist Roberto Saviano. The liberal online magazine Farefuturo protests: "When public television cancels cultural programmes, the state is not fulfilling its mandate of informing the public and confining itself instead to dwarves, starlets and comedians. If public television is willing to edit out the power of the word and the anger of the truth that should never be silenced in a democracy, then it no longer deserves the designation 'public' which stands for seriousness, information and pluralism. A broadcasting service that sweeps the dirt under the carpet of unbearable lightness is not a public service."

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