“Dear engineer, with a hasty gesture you has sold the Espressoa glorious newspaper from which it was born in 1976 Republic. It was sold while a war rages from events and unpredictable outcomes. The proceeds are insignificant for a large company. With an equally serious gesture, moreover, she had fired the director of Republic Carlo Verdelli while received death threats. With all due respect, engineer, I think you did not think hard enough on what it means to be a newspaper editor ”. So Corrado Augias addressed the president of the Gedi publishing group John Elkann in the “postcard” read live in the episode of the program Matters on Rai 3 on Sunday 13 March, criticizing the sale of the historic weekly to the Campania entrepreneur Danilo Iervolino, against whom the editors of various newspapers of the group went on strike or went into a state of agitation.
“An editorial group it is not a steel mill or any fabric factory, ”says Augias. “Newspapers have a history, in some cases they make history. They sell news, but they also give an interpretation of the facts: they are, in the best cases, a guide. I could say, perhaps exaggerating – indeed certainly exaggerating – that newspapers have a soul, however you have to handle them with care: you have to keep this in mind when you are a publisher. I trust in your understanding ”, concludes the conductor.
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