The reading of Antonio Scurati's monologue on April 25 scheduled as part of an April 20 RAI program has been canceled, sparking a case. The Strega Prize-winning writer responded to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who had intervened by denying censorship and raising the economic issue based on the "1,800 euros for one minute of monologue" before publishing the text herself on social media, saying she was suffering "violence for expressing my thoughts". Then on the evening of April 20, journalist Serena Bortone, host of the Rai3 program where Scurati was supposed to be a guest, read the deleted monologue, showing her disagreement with the management's choices. Strong representations were also made by the RAI journalists' union, which read a statement during the editions of the three news programs denouncing the government's "suffocating control of information".
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