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Various of RAI News 24 reports with running caption at bottom of screen reading (in Italian): \"Journalists strike, information windows at 12:00 and 21:00 local\" July 8, 20102....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP TELEVISION - RAINews24 recorded off air)\u003cbr/\u003eJuly 9, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of RAI News 24 reports with running caption at bottom of screen reading (in Italian): \"Journalists strike, information windows at 12:00 and 21:00 local\" \u003cbr/\u003eJuly 8, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of RAI Italian State Television satellite tower \u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up of RAI logo on tower\u003cbr/\u003e4. RAINews 24 newsdesk \u003cbr/\u003e5. Journalist working at computer\u003cbr/\u003e6. RAINews 24 newsroom \u003cbr/\u003e8.SOUNDBITE (Italian) Corradino Mineo, RAINews24 director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"(This law) it is a signal that they're sending to the information world, like saying 'just deal with something else, do not deal with the casta,' that is the political class, the high level business class. That is do not deal with the relationship between politics and businessmen. This is a signal that they are sending to the journalists and also to the magistrates.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: September 4, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide set up of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi approaching cameras\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you read the newspapers today, I think you'll find everything but the truth, therefore drink the disinformation of which you are the protagonists. Poor Italy, with an information system like this!\" \u003cbr/\u003eJuly 8, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Corso Vittorio Emanuele\u003cbr/\u003e12. Sign for FNSI (Italian Journalists Union) \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Roberto Natale, president of FNSI:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Alfano law bill on wiretapping says that one cannot talk until the trial and with the Italian justice timings this means that we need to shut up for years, and about other judicial acts it says we can only summarise them (not publish them in their entirety). This is something we consider ridiculous. What we instead propose is to distinguish completely between what must stay private, which is a secret that we journalists must respect, and what instead can be published, and must be published.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJuly 1, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide pan left of \"No-Gag\" demo in Piazza Navona \u003cbr/\u003e15. Pan right of protesters holding \"No-Gag\" banner\u003cbr/\u003e16. Female protesters wearing symbolic gags \u003cbr/\u003eJuly 8, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Roberto Natale, President of FNSI:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If God forbid the Italian parliament should vote for this dangerous bill, we would turn to civil and professional disobedience because unjust laws are not to be respected. And we would appeal to the constitutional court as soon as the magistrate confirms the doubts on the constitutional compliance of such a bill, and we would also appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJuly 9, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide newspaper stand\u003cbr/\u003e19. Woman at newspaper stand asking for a newspaper and man telling her there are none today because of the strike\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (italian) Vox pop, no name given: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I did not buy a newspaper because there are no newspapers today. There are very few and they are mainly foreign ones, English, Spanish, French ones but no newspapers came out in Italy today.\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Foreign newspapers on stand\u003cbr/\u003eItalians experienced a media information blackout on Friday as journalists joined a strike to protest a wiretap bill aimed at limiting the use of investigative wiretaps that have been the source of numerous scandals.\u003cbr/\u003eNo daily newspapers could be found on newsstands, nor could any TV news be seen on the country's networks because of the long announced strike by journalists against the government's bill, which proposes to drastically limit the publishing and releasing of information gathered from wiretapping investigations.\u003cbr/\u003ePrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is battling to limit the use of investigative wiretaps after he and some allies have been embarrassed by published transcripts of private calls, but there is fierce opposition to ending official eavesdropping in one of the world's most wiretapped nations.\u003cbr/\u003eMagistrates warn the contentious bill pushing its way through parliament would damage their fight against the Mafia, terrorism and paedophilia by severely limiting their powers to conduct wiretaps. \u003cbr/\u003eJournalists are denouncing provisions that would ban them from printing transcripts of such conversations as a breach of freedom of information, and called a media blackout for Friday to illustrate the impact. \u003cbr/\u003eNewspaper journalists went on strike on Thursday so that newspapers would not come out the next day. \u003cbr/\u003eBoth magistrates and journalists have been the object of scorn by Berlusconi - magistrates for the plethora of court cases targeting his business dealings over the last decade and journalists for publishing details of his private life - and they see Berlusconi's moves as an attempt to delegitimise their professions.\u003cbr/\u003eA problem, most observers agree, does exist in Italy: too many wiretaps, too loosely printed, often in violation of somebody's privacy and without a clear connection to any relevant probes.\u003cbr/\u003eWiretaps are an important source of fodder for Italian newspapers, which last summer published transcripts of a purported recording of a call girl who claimed to have spent the night with Berlusconi and, more recently, a conversation between two businessmen the night of last year's deadly earthquake in Abruzzo laughing greedily over the moneymaking opportunity the destruction provided.\u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi defends the bill as necessary to defend citizens against what he sees as overzealous use of the investigative tool, one that indiscriminately records the conversations of anybody who happens to be talking to someone under investigation and then sees private details splashed across the papers.\u003cbr/\u003eIn doing so, Berlusconi - who controls directly or indirectly most of Italy's airwaves through his TV empire and the RAI state broadcast network, not to mention his family-owned publications - has become privacy's unlikely champion.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you read the newspapers today, I think you'll find everything but the truth,\" he told reporters last year. \u003cbr/\u003eBut aside from the concerns that the law would hamper investigations and gag the press, critics also say the premier really wants to protect himself and, in general, the ruling class.\u003cbr/\u003eInternational organisations have added their voices to the critics, including Reporters Without Borders, which denounced the proposed law as authoritarian.\u003cbr/\u003eItaly is arguably one of the most wiretapped nations on the planet - but the estimates of how many people are being spied on electronically vary.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording Justice Minister Angelino Alfano, who drafted the bill, there are more than 100-thousand authorised taps each year. That compares with 20-thousand people wiretapped a year in France, 5,500 in Britain and 1,700 in the United States, Alfano said at the time the bill was presented.\u003cbr/\u003eItalians, it seems, have grown accustomed to getting a glimpse of the lives of their rulers, and many simply shrug off the problem, saying that those who have nothing to hide don't care about the wiretapping.\u003cbr/\u003eIn recent months, most wiretaps leaked to Italian newspapers have emerged from a corruption scandal in which the Italian disaster relief agency is suspected of corruption in connection with contracts for last summer's Group of Eight summit.\u003cbr/\u003eLeaked conversations include a former public works official apparently discussing gay prostitutes with a Vatican choir member and a Brazilian masseuse saying her services to the disaster agency chief went no further than giving a massage.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the past, published wiretaps have included Berlusconi discussing TV shows and actresses with an executive of the public broadcaster.\u003cbr/\u003eDespite these excesses, the bill remains highly controversial, even within Berlusconi's own coalition. \u003cbr/\u003eAs a result, it has been modified several times and more changes might come when parliament takes it up again starting July 29.\u003cbr/\u003eAs it stands, the bill would introduce significant restrictions to investigators, imposing stricter time limits and making the proof needed to win approval for a wiretap tantamount to the proof needed to win a conviction, said a leading anti-terrorist prosecutor in Milan.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials note that investigations for terrorism and Mafia are exempt from the restrictions, but magistrates say those probes often spring from small-time crime cases and that hurting those investigations effectively hurts the fight against major crimes.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the media, the bill would ban the publication of even a summary of any wiretap until the conclusion of preliminary investigations at the earliest - something that can require years in Italy's slow-moving justice system.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is something we consider ridiculous,\" said Roberto Natale, president of the Italian Journalists' Union. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said that if the parliament does vote for the bill, the union would use civil and professional disobedience to protest it, as well as appealing to the constitutional court and European Court of Human Rights. \u003cbr/\u003eIt envisages a one month jail term for journalists and hefty fines for publishers - up to 464-thousand euros (580-thousand US dollars) - who are caught in violation.\u003cbr/\u003eThe law also bans the secret recording of conversations - a measure quickly dubbed \"the D'Addario provision\" after the name of the call girl, Patrizia D'Addario, who is believed to have recorded and then leaked to the media her purported conversations with Berlusconi. 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