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         We will always be in the front lines in defense of the right-duty to inform and of those journalists threatened and intimidated, especially the weakest The Order of Journalists sent this telegram to Ossigeno per l’Informazione at the Concert for Press Freedom on June 21, 2017 in Rome at the “Centrale Montemartini” Museum. Dear colleagues,
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         The bravest and most committed journalists are getting more alone, threatened or blandished, blackmailed, or co-opted by the powerful. It’s tiring to keep your back straight Salentine journalist Marilù Mastrogiovanni, who has suffered numerous acts of intimidation because of her work, sent this telegram to “Ossigeno per l’Informazione” at the Concert for Press Freedom and
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Let’s put in circulation the oxygen of good information, that is fundamental. We defend journalists and citizens who break the silence At the Concert for Press Freedom and the Right to Be Informed held in Rome on 21 June 2017, Senator Massimo Cervellini (Sinistra Italiana) sent the following telegram to “Ossigeno per l’Informazione”. The words
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         We need to be close to those who suffer from privations and threats, says the Senate president to the organizers of the Concert on Press Freedom in Rome Senate President Pietro Grasso sent this telegram to “Ossigeno per l’Informazione” at the Concert for Press Freedom on 21 June 2017 in Rome at the “Centrale Montemartini”
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         In order to defend the quality of information, an unprecedented effort for analysis and effort is needed. It is a strategic theme for any political agenda AGCOM’s President, Angelo Marcello Cardani, sent this message to “Ossigeno per l’Informazione” at the Concert for Press Freedom on 21 June 2017 in Rome. Quality information is a public
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         It must be safeguarded from the victory of an information model which has no true parity, no head or nor tail, without mediators, thus endangering democracy Professor Mario Morcellini, a scholar and teaching professor of communication, journalism and digital networks, who was already a vice-chancellor of La Sapienza University in Rome, and from 15 March
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Information is an inalienable right but often its true role is put aside, limited or even trampled The President of the National Order of Journalists, Nicola Marini, sent this message to Ossigeno per l’Informazione at the Concert for Press Freedom on 21 June 2017 in Rome at the “Centrale Montemartini” Museum. “Music helps not to
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         The legal shame of jail and the appalling charges of defamation and lawsuits for millions of compensation requests, a real weapon of intimidation against journalists The President and Secretary of the Italian National Federation of the Press (FNSI), Giuseppe Giulietti and Raffaele Lorusso, sent this message to the Director of Ossigeno per l’Informazione, Alberto Spampinato,
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         Rome. June 21. Ossigeno invites to the concert for press freedom Free entry. On stage, the Scoop Jazz Band and saxophone player Nicola Alesini at 20:30 pm at the “Centrale Montemartini” Museum Fake and soft news. Some like it lukewarm What’s happening in newspapers. Why “media truth” contrasts without rules to the “substantive or procedural”
      
     
                 	                            	                                             	            
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         During the inauguration ceremony of the new Serbian president, some journalists were attacked and prevented from doing their job. An analysis
      
     
                 	                            	                            	            
                                    	            
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