Prime Minister Meloni responded point by point to Ursula von der Leyen and the Annual Report on the EU Rule of Law, critical of the Government regarding freedom of information and public service broadcasting. Meloni dismantled the main objection, the one relating to the interference of the executive in the governance of Rai, recalling that the current system of appointing top management and the Board of Directors was introduced in 2015 by the then secretary of the Democratic Party and former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, with Meloni against it. A system that, in these nine years, has regulated the Rai of the Gentiloni government, of the Conte 1 and 2 governments, and above all of the Draghi era, so much so that the current Board of Directors – apart from the appointment of the CEO Roberto Sergio after the resignation of Carlo Fuortes appointed by the former president of Bankitalia – is still an expression of the previous executive, of which FdI was the only opposition party. It’s not over. The area close to the Democratic Party, architect of the “Renzi reform”, currently holds 9 seats in Rai, as Travaglio also recalled last year on Otto e mezzo: the direction of Tg3 entrusted to Mario Orfeo; the direction of Distribution presided over by Stefano Coletta; the direction of Radio Due in the hands of Simona Sala; that of Rai Cultura prerogative of Silvia Calandrelli since the distant 2011; the very important direction of Rai Cinema for years entrusted to Paolo Del Brocco; the position of chief of staff of the CEO Sergio, assigned to Del Brocco’s wife, Paola Marchesini; the other very important direction of Rai Fiction entrusted to Maria Pia Ammirati; that of Rai Kids assigned to Luca Milano; the direction of Rai Play and Digital to Elena Capparelli.
Nine seats that are not exactly of little importance, which paradoxically exceed the five of Fratelli d’Italia (Paolo Corsini, Insights; Angelo Mellone, Day Time; Nicola Rao, Communications; Gian Marco Chiocci, Tg1; Paolo Petrecca RaiNews24); the seven of the League (Francesco Pionati, Rai Giornale Radio and Radio Uno; Alessandro Casarin, Tgr; Roberto Pacchetti, co-director Tgr; Angela Mariella, Institutional Relations; Marcello Ciannamea, Prime Time Entertainment; Francesco Giorgino, Research Office); and by far the three of Forza Italia (Antonio Preziosi, Tg2; Giuseppe Santo, Ad Rai Com; Jacopo Volpi, Rai Sport). The politicization of Rai is an established fact. No one has ever objected to the fact that the person responsible for communications and the press office in the campaigns for the Democratic Party primaries hosted Agorà on Rai3, and then Oggi è un altro giorno on Rai1. Let’s talk about Serena Bortone, as Travaglio also recalled a few weeks ago in his editorial. Nor are there any controversies over the fact that the current presenter of Tg3 – Linea Notte Ilaria Capitani, former deputy director of Rai3, was appointed spokesperson for the mayor of Rome Veltroni in 2006. And Roberto Natale, to give another example, former spokesperson for Laura Boldrini in the Chamber, now Rai director for Sustainability. “Split up the networks, split up the appointments, parcel out the hiring not only of journalists and managers, but even of ushers.” Indro Montanelli wrote this in 1993. But Europe woke up only thirty years later. With the Meloni government.
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2024-08-01 19:32:57
