(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 3 - The media can't be censored and journalists have a huge responsibility for telling the truth, President Sergio Mattarella said Friday.
    Mattarella cited article 21 of the Italian constitution, which lays down that "all shall have the right to express their thoughts freely by speech, in writing, and by all other means of communication, and the press shall not be subjected to any authorization or censorship", in a speech marking the 6th anniversary of the founding of the Italian Journalists Guild (OdG).
    "The good that is information is the subject of explicit Constitutional safeguard," said Mattarella.
    He added that journalists have an "enormous responsibility.
    "(This) responsibility (is) accentuated by the multiplication of information sources offered by the web revolution.," said he head of State.
    "The journalistic profession is first and foremost entrusted with the role of expressing free criticism according to duties of loyalty and good faith.
    "Journalists, in this context, are entrusted with the relevant task, for the purposes of the free formation of citizens' opinions, of respecting the substantial truth of facts", said Mattarella in his message to the OdG. (ANSA).