Beppe Grillo, the leader of the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), said Tuesday that
Italian journalists should be banned from citing anonymous
sources.
The call is part of a long campaign by
comedian-turned-politician Grillo against Italian journalists,
who he says are biased in favour of the traditional parties.
Grillo described the use of anonymous sources as a
"congenital malformation" of Italian journalism on his popular
blog, which gave life to the Internet-based M5S in 2009.
He called for a law that obliged journalists to name all
sources in their stories.
"If this is not the case, the crime of defamation should
automatically kick in," said Grillo, whose movement captured a
quarter of the vote in last year's inconclusive general
election.
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