BBC cuts, Fico races, anti-reform: this is the podium at its worst

In third place worst podium everthis week, we have BBC by cutting and sewing Donald Trump’s speeches. In a documentary Trump: second chance? the American president’s statement was broadcast or rather cut, re-edited and then broadcast to support Trump’s coup theorem. So much so that his speech sounded like an encouragement to revolt shortly before the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. Internal report at the BBC, published by Daily Telegraphuncovered all the forgeries, sparking a scandal that immediately led to the resignation of the director general and CEO of BBC News. But the video “retouch” carried out by the tycoon is just the tip of the iceberg. Also targeted by this report are issues regarding war in the Middle East, narratives regarding transgender issues, and reports regarding illegal immigrants. Ideological distortions that have been carried out for years. An alarming picture that endangers the truth of information and readers’ freedom.

On the second podium we have the centre-left candidates for the Campania Region: Roberto Fico. We remember him as the new President of the Chamber in the Atac bus and we find him in “gozzetto” in a sea of ​​controversy. We remember him as an MP from the start, when Beppe promised that the M5S would open parliament like a can of tuna, and we found him leading a very wide field, with alliances we never believed possible. We remember him as a grillino from the first hour, a true “orthodox”, one of those who accused Caste. And now we find him with a CV as a professional politician: deputy from 2013 to 2022, chairman of the Rai Supervisory Commission from 2013 to 2018; President of the Chamber from 2018 to 2022. How times have changed…

In first place on the podium is the future of reform is not towards justice who, to spread propaganda against career separation, created an incredible hoax. An example? The difficult to understand interview was conducted on May 23, 1991 in Borsellino of Samarcanda. But no interviews were broadcast that day. And even three years earlier, when the judge actually acquitted him, he was talking about everything but a career separation. However, in newspapers and on TV, the no front group made Borsellino an implacable enemy of reform. The same goes for Falcone who has another difficult to understand interview, this time with Republicwas taken and considered a manifesto against judicial reform. It is a shame that, when sifting through the newspaper archives, no trace of this interview could be found. But here’s Nicola Gratteri reading it On Tuesdayin La7, to argue that Falcone, like him, opposed separating the judges’ careers, and then, after he was arrested, he shifted responsibility to his own “sources.”

Anyway, listen to what Falcone said in 1991 Republic: “Anyone, like me, who requires (judges and prosecutors) to be two figures structurally differentiated in skill and career, is labeled an enemy of the independence of judges, longs for criminal discretion, wants to place prosecutors under executive control.”