The party of players to say no to gag of
Alice Gurrieri 
The Hill is a community of the fourteen sites in Sardinia where it is held, between 24 and 25 September last year, the Festival Players of 2010 All annual event dedicated to "the reader, who does not read, who read" and organized by the Presidium of the book in collaboration with the Deans of the Book of Sardinia, Sardinian Region and the Fondazione Banco di Sardegna. The festival, now in its sixth year, has involved the towns of Cagliari, Carbonia, Elmas, Jerzu, Macon, Marriottsville, Nuoro, Hope St, Sassari, Serdiana, Tempio, Tortoli, Vallejo and Villagreca. Each municipality, in line with the spirit of the event, proposed and discussions with authors, performances, readings, games and contests. Hill, with the participation of its publisher and the library has chosen to spend the holiday this year in a very timely topic: the freedom of the press, the crucial issue in a historical moment in which the Italian political class is designed to restrict, without regard for democratic principles on which our Republic rests. It was then organized a conference-debate with the participation as speakers journalist Loris Mazzetti, Enzo Biagi and longtime collaborator of notes capostruttura broadcast on Rai Tre and columnist for the newspaper directed by Antonio Done Padellaro, Francesco Birocchi Association of Print Sarda, Ottavio Olita, RAI journalist and member of the region Article 21. A coordination meeting, the journalist and writer James Mameli, who opened the proceedings by presenting Pinuccio Sciola, among the masters of contemporary Italian and international. The sculptor Sardinia in September, made a gift to the Hill to one of his trademark sound stones. In the present work, the artist explained that contains a scale, visible to the observer: Sciola has described the scale of redemption. "That's why we chose this stone. Contains within itself the message that Don Hector decided to communicate by creating The Hill. " Around the monolith, the artist from San Hope has placed some rocks with a sign on the back that makes them symbolically similar to the seeds. "Because everything comes from the seeds, life is born, born ideas, freedom is born. The seed is the supreme element of life. These components are arranged together with the characterization of an area that is growing every day, thanks to Don Hector, children and friends who attend the community, "said Sciola. The evening came alive early in the first operation. Francesco Birocchi began by underlining the great paradox of freedom of the press, enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution of Italy: in some countries the freedom does not exist and you fight for it, but exists in other countries fought to defend it. So, press freedom is never an accepted fact and peaceful, just think of the ranking by Freedom House, the organization U.S. created to monitor the status of press freedom in the world: Italy is the place settantaquattresimo. "And to think that the Italian government continues to question this ranking, arguing that there has never been so much freedom of the press in this period. It brings to mind the words of Francesco Cossiga when he came to the headquarters of the Journalists in Cagliari: "Press freedom is never enough." Nothing is more true, "said Birocchi, who recalled the end of the newspaper Il Sardegna, closed a few weeks ago. "We have witnessed the eviction of writing has been lacking a voice. And the regional landscape, for obvious narrower grounds, when there is no one voice we're a little 'less wealthy, "said the president of the Press Sarda. Philippe Peretti, president of the Sardinian newspaper, said the biggest fault of Western countries is not complied with the duty to inform, freely and in a serious way. "According to law number 69, in accordance with Article 2 of 1963, those who exercise the profession of journalist's duty to inform in a fair and objective. Now, there is no doubt that this requirement is often overlooked, "said Peretti. The President also recalled the decision of the founding fathers, when they discussed about the freedom of the press. It was established that the state can not interfere with the duty of the social actors in the field of free information, but rather should only leave their job to fulfill this obligation. "But now the opposite is happening: the state interferes full disclosure, it undermines the fundamental feature, namely freedom. Without freedom, the information is not a service, the guarantee is not decided by the fathers of our Constitution, "he reiterated Peretti. The President of the Order has also expressed its regret at the lack of publishers ¬ 'pure' in our country, but only to industrialists, financiers, owners of banks that are improvised publishers, thereby influencing the information. "The truth is that we must fight not only against the gag imposed by the Berlusconi government, but against all the gags, first and foremost against those that the owners of newspapers are forcing us to wear. It is the whole system to be wrong. We must confront the pluralism of conflict of interest that governs this country, because we expect a healthy pluralism. Journalists want to work with your back straight? Equip themselves for it. "Peretti said defiantly. Giacomo Mameli, just before giving the floor to Loris Mazzetti, explained that currently do journalism in favor of the weak does not mean to be progressive, but it means to be accused of communism. "Why only now being progressive is equivalent to side Marchionne and not the workers. There is a race to trample on those who want to defend the weak, thus clashing with the unique and dominant thought. " Loris Mazzetti, "hot pen" in Italian journalism, said his experience in the era of the gag from a recent slide of the Resto del Carlino, whose writing, drafting a special issue of the magazine for 125 years, has "forgotten "number among the various directors Enzo Biagi. In the 70 Biagi, with great commitment and dedication, he worked to revive the newspaper in Bologna, because of poor sales. "In Conference press, the question of a journalist who asked why such a failure, the response of the public relations office of the publisher Riffeser was: we had to talk to many people, it is normal to forget some. This is despicable, is groped to erase the memory. This means to gag. " Mazzetti went on telling his experience as Rai capostruttura programs the likes of Che tempo che fa. "Nobody could imagine that we ask the list of guests who will drive in from October to May. But how do we know who will be in studio on April 30 for example? While not directly prevent a program to create, with the obligation imperative to respect these rules is absurd and limiting as if they were doing, "said Mazzetti. The reporter explained that because of strong restrictive measures taken by the board of RAI, perhaps can not be achieved even with the program Fabio Fazio and Roberto Saviano Come away with me, scheduled for November. "In Rai freedom no longer exists, who now administers it has also become the owner," said Mazzetti. Ottavio Olita, who spoke in closing, he highlighted the importance of building a new course, now that you're under attack. "This current situation is infamous butchering and ruining the mere reflection on how they can create new ideas. The moment we begin to evaluate the policy choices of the majority without cure us of liking or dislike of Mr Berlusconi's Court, when we are all united, we can build a country other than that in which we live, "he concluded Olita. During the discussion following the conference, addressed the large audience was able to express its position to support the fight against the gag. Because, as pointed out by the speakers during the evening, has played a key role in information from the reader. In fact, the reader decides, the player chooses. Especially when he knows what he really wants.
