Stop any kind of collaboration with Claudio Lippi: Viale Mazzini’s position comes early in the morning after statements by the conductor classified as “damaging the reputation of Rai and his managers” were circulated in various media.
A clear and unambiguous response: phrases like “Enough with the propaganda of the Fazios and Annunziatas. Enough with the culture with the k’, ‘fewer gays’ who’ve worked on TV in recent years ‘just because they’re like that’
Shocking statements collected in the Chamber of Deputies. Five years ago, Lippi – who has been named in this weeks rumors as one of the possible faces of the new Rai schedules – said Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni asked him for help: “They wanted an opinion, an outside view of Rai, from those who know about television.” And he replied, “that a smile is needed. Rai has to go into the houses of the Italians and say ‘Good evening’. Light and intelligent, not with propaganda.” Fazio and Littizzetto “left. Fazio lied and said that the commercial brought in three times the cost of the show. But if it cost 450,000 euros per episode, did he make 1 million and 200,000 euros from advertising? According to Lippi, “Fazio was a villain: He and his little sister already had a millionaire deal at Discovery. But guess what? Just press the nine on the remote to see them again. What’s the problem?” As for Lucia Annunziata, her word was “Propaganda, ‘Kultura’ with a k.” That’s enough. Did you see the interview with Minister Roccella? Bad, aggressive. That’s not Rai.
In his opinion, Rai needs “a popular language. Giorgia (Meloni, editor’s note) is a ‘citizen of Garbatella’. She won the elections by speaking to Italians and women. This language is needed there.”. The former executive of prime-time entertainment is also being targeted: “Stefano Coletta, the director, who fortunately doesn’t exist anymore, let gay men and women work just because they’re gay.” As for plans for the future, he spoke of “a program, in prime time on Rai1, which I would like to call Condominio Italia”. And then “Yesterday, today, an old format that talks about television, with archive clips”.
In an interview with ANSA today, the conductor tries to correct the recording. “I suffered an inept attack on my privacy and a serious damage to my image: I am considering with my press office and my lawyers how I can defend myself.” And he says: “I recognize myself in the statements that are attributed to me, not again: I wouldn’t use the word villain even for my worst enemy and I defend freedom of sexual choice with an ongoing fight,” Lippi underscores. 78 years old. “I’m a decent person. And I’m also a free citizen and I definitely stand with the new government made up of people I know personally, starting with Berlusconi and my personal relationship with Salvini and Meloni. But I don’t.” I think we can be held responsible for these ideas. “I have 59 years of work behind me, an audience that believes in me and in my intellectual honesty and I will defend it to the death,” concludes Lippi, who has already caused controversy in recent weeks as a guest of Francesca Fialdini at Da noi had taken care of it…freewheeling, on Rai1, giving the “primate” to a boy in the audience with thick hair.
“Is he Italian?” she had asked him. “Ah, he’s half Brazilian, that’s why. Suppose he is always on the human side, that is, he is a human. He is not primate.” Board member Francesca Bria welcomes Viale Mazzini’s decision: “A dutiful act by Rai to break the collaboration: Lippi’s statements are not compatible with the company’s professional ethics and code of ethics.” For Carlo Calenda, Lippi’s are Phrases that “no person with a public voice in a Western country would dream of uttering.” The fact that this personality is not ashamed to do so in Italy shows that there is an enormous cultural work to be done here Do”.
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