Conflict between two major TV news stories about the war in Ukraine and the thorny issue of media narrative of the conflict. Enrico Mentana and Michele Santoro face the Maurizio Costanzo Show. The director of the TG of La7 receives the compliments of Maurizio Costanzo for his specials on the war. “Detto da te is a medal,” replies Mentana, who shortly thereafter clashes with the historical conductor of Samarkand, the Red and the Black, The Green Ray and many successful programs.
“We can’t say” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “attacked” and claim in the same way that Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy “pulled it off,” says Mentana, provoking Santoro’s reaction: “And indeed you can don’t say that,” he affirms, giving the verb “power” a completely different meaning. “In fact, everything is a single fanfare playing the same music,” he argues, “it’s the music of guns: the only solution is to send more guns and kill more.” We cannot accept that we all have the same opinion.”
For Santoro, French President Emmanuel Macron is right, we need to deal with Putin who is “an intelligent person” and not call him “animal” as Luigi Di Maio’s foreign minister did. “If I had said Rg1, what would have happened? I would have become a victim destined to be shot. Mentana is not there: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “went to Moscow to discuss with Putin and nobody said he didn’t do well. Everyone hopes that the outcome of this case will be positive”.
In short, for the historical Rai man on televised war in Ukraine, there is a “single thought” and a “fanfare” in Kyiv, unequivocally aimed at support. In the discussion, Giuseppe Cruciani, presenter of La Zanzara on Radio 24, brings up Professor Alessandro Orsini and the contract that Rai tore up. According to Mentana, the Luiss professor, who is considered by many to be pro-Russian and pro-Putin, could also intervene free of charge, as he later did, among other things. But even in this case, Santoro has a different opinion: “If you pay some guests to speak, you don’t have to pay Orsini,” he says, accusing his colleague of saying demagogic things.