Vespa rejects AGCOM reprimand (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, April 28 - RAI State broadcaster talk show host Bruno Vespa on Thursday rejected a reprimand from media watchdog AGCOM for an allegedly supine interview with former Mafia boss of bosses Toto' Riina's son Salvo on his Porta a Porta show earlier this month. Vespa said he disagreed "radically with the judgements expressed in the reprimand" and claimed to have respected professional ethics as he has always done in his fifty-year career. Vespa said he was "deeply surprised by the measure from the watchdog, which I don't recall ever having expressed itself with such resounding severity against a TV interview".