“The controversy over Scurati? I have read all of his books and he seemed objective in his judgments.” These are the words of Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, reported by Repubblica which told a long background story on the writer's exclusion from a Rai program where he was supposed to read his monologue. “He seemed objective in his judgments – he added – and, indeed, in the first book he was even accused of having been too tender”, added the minister.
“My opinion on many of Rai goes beyond today's case. They are impoverishing Rai. It is proof that they live outside of time. You could have thought of censoring something in 1965, when you had three networks and nothing else. Censoring something now means giving it a very strong media push and multiplying the strength of a message. How did it happen”. In any case, Meloni “did well to publish the speech on social media”.
“I think – other words attributed to the minister reported by the newspaper – that fascism is fought with actions and not with proclamations. Anti-fascism means defending democracy, free institutions, free discussion, freedom of enterprise, the weakest. It means having an objective and clear judgment on the twenty years and on the wounds of fascism. That said, I think the same thing about communism.”
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