‘Freedom of the press: how to defend it?’ is the title of a meeting, organized and promoted by La Via Maestra Comunità Torinese (CGIL), to discuss with journalists, information workers and civil society about one of the key rights of democracy and to discuss spaces of freedom and how these are increasingly narrowing, starting from conflicts of interest and up to the crux of public radio and television service.
The Subalpina Press Association, the Order of Journalists of Piedmont, the regional Articolo21 club, Cdr Rai of Turin will also participate in the initiative. The appointment is set for Tuesday 25 June 2024 from 6pm to 8pm in Turin (Magazzino sul Po in via Murazzi del Po Ferdinando Buscaglione, 18).
«Information is like the air we breathe: if it is clean we live long and well, if someone poisons it our survival is at risk. Polluted information alters the rules of the democratic game, in the workplace as in society. It reduces political and social viability, compressing our freedoms”, recalls the CGIL Torino in the invitation to the meeting published on its website.
«Information concerns the entire community and not just, as is sometimes thought, professionals. For this reason – underlines Stefano Tallia, president of the Piedmont Odg, on casadeigiornalisti.it – the associations that recognize themselves in La Via Maestra, promoted by the CGIL, with the adhesion of the Order of Journalists of Piedmont, of the Subalpina Press Association, of the Giulia Giornaliste association and numerous other associations, asked women and men from different worlds to tell us what freedom of the press is and how its limitation affects our daily lives.”
