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Italy: Rai Sports Staff to Strike over Olympic Opening Farce
RaiSport journalists will strike for three days after the Games, citing numerous factual mistakes and biased commentary by director Paolo Petrecca during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
- On Tuesday, journalists from RaiSport announced a three-day strike after the Winter Olympics and said they will withhold bylines during Olympic coverage.
- Following a flawed opening-ceremony broadcast last Friday by RaiSport director Paolo Petrecca, staff announced a strike over on-air errors and venue misidentifications.
- Rai's management responded by removing Paolo Petrecca after a meeting with Giampaolo Rossi, amid accusations of bias toward Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and opposition claims of politicization.
- Facing what they call RaiSport's worst-ever output, RaiSport journalists said the measures aim to make their voices heard while opposition politicians cited alleged politicized appointments at Rai in recent years.
- The episode involved high-profile figures and surprising on-air mistakes as the broadcast announced Mariah Carey while showing Matilda de Angelis, and misidentified IOC President Kirsty Coventry as the Italian president's daughter.
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The controversy over the news of the Olympic inauguration conducted by the director of RaiSport is the pretext for a political reckoning inside and outside Viale Mazzini. The real scandal is the untouchability of Mattarella.I don't know Paolo Petrecca and I have not heard his news of the inauguration of the Winter Olympic Games. I do, however, for acquired that it has not been brilliant and that it has been crippled by uncertainties and errors, …
Nor will they put their names under materials about the Olympics.
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Total News Sources24
Leaning Left5Leaning Right6Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Right
Bias Distribution
- 43% of the sources lean Right
43% Right
L 36%
C 21%
R 43%
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