2023-05-26 06:01:01
The Italian public televisionthe RAIhas recently had a new CEO. Is about Giampaolo Rossiclose to Giorgia Meloni and known for his debatable opinions. Rossiwho joined RAI’s board of directors in 2018, has come to defend the false theories of ethnic replacementhas praised Donald Trump, has attacked Pope Francis and, of course, also George Soros. He has even said that he is the ‘Shelob’ of the new world orderin reference to the monstrous spider of the Lord of the Rings.
the choice of Rossi is framed in a abrupt wave of change within the public entity, which critics consider a true Witch hunt, fruit of las purges of the government of Melons. One of the cases that has given rise to the most controversy is that of Fabio Faziopresenter for two decades of one of RAI’s star programs, ‘Che tempo che fa’ (‘What’s the weather like?’), which came to host figures of the stature of the Pope himself and the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Fazio, from the left but who is not affiliated with any party, has not renewed with the chain in these weeks.
Public entity RAI faces an abrupt wave of change, with a swing to the right
The maintenance of the political balances on the three main RAI channels (RAI 1, RAI 2 and RAI 3, the latter being the channel traditionally more left-leaning) has always been a well-established reality in Italy; a country, this one, in which the conservative tycoon Silvio Berlusconi controls other of the three main national channels. But in recent weeks, when Melons He has not yet completed a year in power, his government’s maneuvers registered an acceleration. The publicly stated objective is remove spaces to the left.
Revanchism
The politician who has manifested it in the clearest and most direct way has been the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano. “For years we have been marginalized, now it’s up to us“, he stated in an act this month. Sangiuliano has even described Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the father of the Italian language, as a “founder of right-wing thought”. Neutral observers, however, have reminded him that there was no back then the left-right divide.
Regarding the presenters considered oblivious to the rightAlessandro Giuli, who has replaced the progressive Giovanni Melandri at the head of the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, has declared that what is needed now is “a conservative Fazio”. While the populist Five Star Movement (M5E), also represented on the public broadcaster, has so far not taken sides and he/she/it has abstained of the votes taken in the board of directors of RAI.
On the contrary, the head of the M5S, Joseph ConteHe has even criticized the Democratic Party (PD) about this issue. “In the RAI in the past up to 70% were from the PD”, it has been justified. This after some dropped the suspicion that it would have come to an underground deal with Meloni that would guarantee him some positions in the public network.
no women
In this climate, the journalists union (USIGRAI) has also regretted that, among the new names, practically no women appear. In addition, they have not liked that external journalists are used, and not from the house. “Is a new slap and the reopening of a stage that seemed archived”, they have written, describing these maneuvers as “full interference” in the freedom of RAI. With this, the veteran Lucia Annunziata also decided to throw in the towel and resigned from the chain. “I don’t agree with how the government is intervening in RAI,” she explained on Thursday.
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Sandro Ruotolo, a former journalist and recent PD affiliate, has criticized the method. “It is the first time that the acting leadership (at RAI) is replaced with a decree lawwhen (their contracts) expired in 2024″, he said. Ruotolo thus referred to the urgent legislation approved at the beginning of this month by the Council of Ministers and which set the age limit at 70 years for the directors of some public companies, which accelerated the departure of the previous CEO of RAI, Carlo Fuortes, and began the string of changes.
Hence, heads have also begun to roll in the news department. The one chosen as the new director for TG1, the newscast of RAI 1said Gian Marco Chiocci, they seek Meloni, while Alessandro Preziosi, closer to Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, has been appointed for TG 2, and for TG 3, the progressive Mario Orfeo has been confirmed. For his part, Paolo Petrecca, linked to the prime minister, will stay with RAINews, the 24-hour channel. While the League of Matthew Salvini is on its way to take over the management of GR Radio, the public radio.
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