The parliamentary oversight commission
on Rai on Tuesday slammed the state broadcaster's failure to
properly cover the French election results on Sunday night.
Panel chair Barbara Floridia said it was "wholly inconceivable"
that Rai news programmes had ignored the shock leftwing victory
in their lead items.
She said she had requested an "urgent and detailed" report on
the "hole" in Rai's coverage from CEO Roberto Sergio.
Floridia belongs to the leftist populist opposition 5-Star
Movement.
Italy's opposition parties have alleged a government takeover of
Rai while the broadcaster's internal union has said it has
become the government's mouthpiece.
Premier Giorgia Meloni has said the government is "duly
rebalancing" the broadcaster after decades of alleged liberal
hegemony.
The centre-left Democratic Party asked Rai executives to comment
on a Facebook post by Paolo Sylos Labini, whose show
'Identitarian Cities' led the Rai all-news show Sunday night, in
which the conservative actor and director cited director Sergio
Leone's response to "radical chic" calls for him to be more
politically engaged by showing a scene from Duck! You Sucker
(1971) in which Rod Steiger's character urinates on an
anti-hill, said to represent the Left.
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