Oh, thank goodness for Beppe Grillo!
Not only he organised the first Vaffanculo Day last year (see video below) but he's done it again!! Yes, today has been V-Day2: all over Italy fed up Italians have gathered and shouted out lout against the monopoly of information, the Italian and European funding of that same monopolistic information, the mafia among parlamentarians.... Today signatures have been collected for three referenda: the abolition of the Order of Journalists (which doesn't exist anywhere else), the abolition of public financing of a billion Euro a year to the publishing industry (Berlusconi gets a large chunck of this money), the abolition of the Gasparri law and the duopoly Parties-Mediaset (i.e. media businessman should not have direct control of government media).
Is this asking too much in a democratic, developed country part of the EU, the G7, the NATO etc.?
Needless to say, most Italian and international newspapers and tvs have ignored this event.
The New York Times on Beppe Grillo's VDay in 2007:
Not only he organised the first Vaffanculo Day last year (see video below) but he's done it again!! Yes, today has been V-Day2: all over Italy fed up Italians have gathered and shouted out lout against the monopoly of information, the Italian and European funding of that same monopolistic information, the mafia among parlamentarians.... Today signatures have been collected for three referenda: the abolition of the Order of Journalists (which doesn't exist anywhere else), the abolition of public financing of a billion Euro a year to the publishing industry (Berlusconi gets a large chunck of this money), the abolition of the Gasparri law and the duopoly Parties-Mediaset (i.e. media businessman should not have direct control of government media).
Is this asking too much in a democratic, developed country part of the EU, the G7, the NATO etc.?
Needless to say, most Italian and international newspapers and tvs have ignored this event.
The New York Times on Beppe Grillo's VDay in 2007:
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