Italian media on strike over bill to curb wiretapping
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.
(AFP)
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