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A high-profile Italian author has accused Rai of censorship after his antifascist monologue was abruptly stopped from being aired, in what he called the “definitive demonstration” of alleged attempts by Giorgia Meloni’s government to wield its power over the state broadcaster.
Antonio Scurati was due to read the monologue marking the 25 April national holiday, which celebrates Italy’s liberation from fascism, on the Rai 3 talkshow Chesarà on Saturday night.
But as he prepared to travel to Rome, he received a note from Rai telling him his appearance had been cancelled “for editorial reasons”.
Scurati is well known in Italy for his books about the dictator Benito Mussolini and the fascist period. The cancellation of his monologue provoked fierce reaction from Rai journalists, fellow authors and opposition leaders.
His speech referenced Giacomo Matteotti, a political opponent of Mussolini who was murdered by fascist hitmen in 1924, and other massacres of the regime. It also contained a paragraph criticising Italy’s “post-fascist” leaders for not “repudiating their neofascist past”.
“Undoubtedly, this is what infuriated them,” Scurati told the Guardian. “And also because of what I represent and maintain in my books … [that] there is a continuity between the fascism of Mussolini and the populist nationalists in Europe.”
The Rai director Paolo Corsini denied that the monologue had been censored, telling the Italian media that an investigation “of an economic and contractual nature” was under way, while implying that the speech was cancelled because of the “higher than expected” fee sought by Scurati.
Scurati said his fee had been agreed and the contract signed before the monologue was due to be broadcast. “The fee was perfectly in line with those paid to authors … It was the same as in the past, when there were no issues.”
In solidarity, Serena Bortone, who presents Chesarà, read out the monologue on the show. It has also been published in full by several Italian newspapers and websites.
Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party has neofascist origins, came to power in October 2022 with a coalition including the far-right League and the late Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
During the election campaign, Meloni said the rightwing parties had “handed fascism over to history for decades now”. However, Scurati claimed in his monologue that when forced to address fascism at historical anniversaries, Meloni has “obstinately stuck to the ideological line of her neofascist culture of origin”, for example by blaming the Mussolini regime’s persecution of the Jews and other massacres on Nazi Germany alone.
Meloni responded by publishing the speech on her Facebook page, while attacking Scurati and accusing the left of “shouting at the regime”.
“Rai responded by simply refusing to pay €1,800 (the monthly salary of many employees) for a minute of monologue,” she said. “I don’t know what the truth is, but I will happily publish the text of the monologue (which I hope I don’t have to pay for) for two reasons: 1) Those who have always been ostracised and censored by the public service will never ask for anyone to be censored. Not even those who think their propaganda against the government should be paid for with citizens’ money. 2) Because Italians can freely judge its content.”
Since coming to power, the Meloni government has been accused of increasingly exerting its power over Rai while edging out managers or TV hosts with leftwing views. The European Commission was last week urged to investigate the government’s alleged attempts to turn the broadcaster into a “megaphone” for the ruling parties before the European elections.
Meloni’s administration has also been accused of trying to influence other areas of the press and targeting journalists with legal action who criticise the government. A Brothers of Italy politician recently proposed toughening penalties for defamation, including jail terms of two to three years.
Elly Schlein, the leader of the centre-left Democratic party, said: “The Scurati case is serious; Rai is the megaphone for the government.” Carlo Calenda, the leader of the centrist Azione party, said: “Silencing a writer for saying unpleasant things about the government is simply unacceptable.”
Scurati said he has received solidarity from many authors and journalists who were otherwise afraid to speak out against the government.
“This episode is the definitive demonstration, as it has finally aroused the revolt of other writers, intellectuals and journalists who until now kept quiet,” he said. “This government launches violent personal attacks against you for speaking out, in my case [that] I asked for too much money.”
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JONATHAN BAILEY and SIMONE ASHLEY
as Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma
#my loves#I hate how insanely attractive they both are#bridgerton#jonathan bailey#simone ashley#anthony bridgerton#kate sharma#can't believe I'll see them again in a month :')
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Karl Grove is a gay icon.
#so proud of this post#karl was amazing and he deserves to be known by everyone#and jack davenport truly gave his soul for this role#jack davenport#karl grove#why women kill
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sometimes I wonder if Ben Lambert is aware of how much Simon is loved
#not gonna wonder if he is aware of people shipping simon and markus through because he OBVIOUSLY KNOWS#there is no way he doesn't know after how he played simon like c'mon he is one of the reasons people ships simarkus#dbh#detroit: become human#detroit become human#dbh simon#simon pl600#ben lambert
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#AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH#CRYING SOBBING SCREAMING LOOK AT THEM#THEY ARE THE SHIP THE SHIP THAT HAS EVERYTHING AND EVEN MORE#braime#jaime x brienne#jaime lannister#brienne of tarth#nikolaj coster waldau#gwendoline christie
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when a straight actor plays a gay role you all are like "ooooohhhhh he is so good and brave to play a gay character with such a passion!" but when it's a gay actor that plays a very straight character that maybe is the lead in a romance you are "..eh what a pity he is gay in real life I can't thirst over him anymore now knowing that" if LGBT people did the same and had crushes only for characters played by gay actors in real life they would have died of thirst
#this is about jonathan bailey and bridgerton and anthony bridgerton#and how I saw with my own eyes girls being crazy for him and then saying this kind of bullshit once they discovered he was gay in real life#it's always the same topic#WHY THE FUCK ACTORS' PERSONAL LIFE AND SEXUAL PREFERENCES IS RELEVANT TO THIS#I HATE THIS I HATE WHEN PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHARACTERS AND ACTORS#THEY ARE NOT THE SAME#STOP OBSESSING OVER THEIR LOVE LIFE IT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS#THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I DON'T SEARCH ACTORS ON GOOGLE ANYMORE
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As a Simarkus shipper and Simon stan, I agree with this so much it hurts.
I wish Simarkus shippers/Simon stans absolutely trashing on North all the time hadn't absolutely obliterated any kind of tolerance I ever had for Simarkus. It's a decent ship, just when I see it I get so much second-hand annoyance that I genuinely cannot enjoy it.
#I HATE when shippers of a ship I like acts like an idiot and all the fandom get a bad reputation because of it#north baby I love you so much I'm sorry people are stupid#sooo glad that most of the simarkus shippers I interacted with are north lovers#anyway people are really stupid tbh acting as if north was the reason simarkus didn't happen#she didn't even know simon liked markus WTF are you talking about#okay now I'll stop ranting about it#dbh#dbh north
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Me seeing Colin suffering and being jealous by seeing Penelope with her suitor in the trailer after two seasons of her suffering and being jealous while Colin was taking her for granted and not even considered her as a woman saying to her shit like "you are my friend you do not count"
#THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS WHAT I WANT#SUFFER COLIN SUFFER#kidding I like colin but I'll love when he will realize what a fool he was#bridgerton#polin#colin x penelope#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington
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holy fuck leto are you writing a simarkus one shot about this? because now I want it
can i just say how fucking funny the part in battle for detroit is where markus slowly turns to look at simon after he said the barricade wasn't stopping anyone?
#ASDHKSJFHSJKGHSKGHS a classic reblogged post by leto with so many tags you could write a book about it#LOVE THEM#I wish I had your talent... it is hard to me to write so many tags I am booooring#and most of my tags are just the name of the character or the ship so I could easily find them again
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Season 1 // Season 2 // Season 3
#AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH#this is why I love the romances in bridgerton#the tension the yearning the chemistry#simon x daphne#anthony x kate#colin x penelope#bridgerton
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Actual image of me realizing that in one/two months I'll see with my own eyes Polin fucking after shipping them since 2020
#okay probably two months#I don't think we will get a sex scene in the first part of the season maybe a kiss if we are lucky#bridgerton#polin#colin x penelope#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington
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Congrats to show!Jaime for finally making it to #1 on a popular media list! 😂 Good to see that heading onto the 5th anniversary of the disastrous S8, Jaime's forced Twincest ending is still truly hated by the masses and that Dumb and Dumber's dream of J/C becoming the "true love" story the audience would grow to love be completely shattered over and over. Anybody with a functioning brain could have told them Twincest was never going to be loved. GRRM himself told them that through asoiaf and making Jaime/Brienne his Beauty and the Beast story but of course D&D never understood the books and thought they could do better. Anyways it's always nice to see D&D get hate for ruining Jaime lmao.
#AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH#who is surprised? absolutely no one#first the jon snow spinoff cancelled and then this LMAO#anti d&d#jaime lannister#anti jaime x cersei#anti twincest#anti lannincest
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for this scene this shot is my fave through. Simon had the fucking audacity to look at Markus in the eyes with that know-it-all face and Markus is that annoyed that he moves his entire body to look at Simon as if he is ready to punch him
can i just say how fucking funny the part in battle for detroit is where markus slowly turns to look at simon after he said the barricade wasn't stopping anyone?
#AHGASKDHSFHGSHF#OKAY NOW I'LL STOP I SWEAR#I just love both shots but the second one is just????#dbh#markus rk200#simon pl600
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You know what? It's actually way funnier than I remembered
can i just say how fucking funny the part in battle for detroit is where markus slowly turns to look at simon after he said the barricade wasn't stopping anyone?
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I hope every single racist and sexist gets antagonised by me personally actually. I hope I make you seethe and piss and frown.
#sometimes I have the desire to tell leto about all the abusive/racists/misogynists characters she doesn't know#the ones that literally everyone hates just to see the amount of hate and bad things she would say about them#and I just stay there in awe#help I think I found a new OTP#it's leto x hating abusive characters
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Does anyone have that one meme where it's the rooftop scene and connor has Simon pinned one the wall before he shoots himself and the next image it's Markus crying captioned with something along the lines of "damn u connor i always wanted to do that" or something 😭😭 it's so freaking stupid and I've been looking for three days straight.
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With the third season of Bridgerton coming out in three months, I'd like to point out once again that I'd better not see a single comment fat shaming Penelope.
For once, for once dammit, we are getting a romance where one of the leads is a plus size woman, who will be seen as beautiful and attractive and sexy by her love interest, a thin man, and I intend to enjoy it from start to end.
I know some people dislikes Penelope as a character and this is perfectly fine, but I don't want to see a single comment about her body. You don't like her? Fine. You are free to say you can't stand her, that she is annoying, she is evil, what you want. But don't you dare to say a word about her body.
Fat shaming is disgusting and whoever does it is disgusting too. I''ll never tolerate it, never. You are warned.
#reblogging this again in honor of the trailer they released yesterday the same trailer I can't stop watching HELP#anyway a plus size woman is one of the leads in a romance so you better shut up and don't say a fucking thing about her body#keep your disgusting fat shaming to yourself#bridgerton#polin#colin x penelope#penelope featherington
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