At the forefront in defense of “freedom of the press” is Giuseppe Conte, who as prime minister had Rocco Casalino select the friendly journalists to be admitted to the press conference at Palazzo Chigi. For the Grillino leader, the level playing field reform paves the way «for the government to occupy RAI television slots» and «transforms RAI into a megaphone for Giorgia Meloni’s live rallies», therefore the Five Star Movement will «do everything, inside and outside the Supervision”, to “prevent such a havoc of freedom of information and the press”. A sensitivity towards the journalistic category that the grillini have developed very recently. The M5s, born on the wave of the fuck you, has always dedicated the insult to the press as well as to politics, as taught by Beppe Grillo. The comedian-founder has said all sorts of things against journalists, «I would eat you just for the sake of vomiting», threats such as «Look them in the face and remember them», which then resulted in a column on his blog, «Journalists of the day”, a black list of journalists considered enemies of the Movement and therefore to be reported and insulted. In a show in Rimini Grillo distributed fake banknotes to the journalists present to give them sales, with the claque of Grillini militants who insulted them, so much so that the Order of Journalists intervened against «a fourth-rate show that does not respect freedom of information and pluralism”. Exactly the principles that the M5s now flaunts that it wants to defend against «TeleMeloni». “The code of conduct for M5s parliamentarians” should not be forgotten, issued by the Grillini leaders in 2013, when an army of novice 5s deputies and senators arrived in Parliament. A section of the regulation concerned the relationship with the media, with a ban on all elected representatives from participating «in talk shows usually hosted by journalists liked or nominated by the parties, as in Rai, Mediaset and La7». A ban that led to immediate expulsions for parliamentarians who went astray, as happened to Senator Marino Mastrangeli, who was dismissed in a flash with the following sentence: «Citizen Marino Mastrangeli has violated the rule “Avoid participation in television talk shows” numerous times without any coordination with the parliamentary groups and thus damaging the image of the M5S with completely personal assessments. For this reason, it was decided to expel him from the parliamentary group.” Then the rules changed, but not for the better. It’s okay to be on TV, but only on our terms. «No interruptions, not even from the host, and no “cuts” from the director to other guests. It is no longer acceptable for images of services and guests in the studio to be debased with fragmented and artfully directed shots. It is no longer acceptable for the guest on television programs (political representative, expert, commentator, etc.) to be continuously interrupted”, explained Grillo’s blog, dictating the rules of engagement for TV programs to obtain an exponent of the M5s as a guest.
A series of instructions not only to journalists but also to television directors, on how to frame the Grillini parliamentarians. Then, in recent years, with the transition from Grillism to Contism, the bans have fallen, on the other hand the M5S has become a major grabber for seats in Rai. Not only in the government, also in the opposition.
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