A company that adds, not subtracts: “The purge I’ve never used it.” Rai’s CEO affirms it Robert sergius, who spoke at the Sheet Innovation Festival in Venice. “I’ve always thought that maybe you should change, circulate, add, but never delete.” Of course, the reference refers to the great farewells of the last few weeks Fabio Fazio (which will take place on Nove) and Lucia Annunziata up to Massimo Gramellini (which will go to Ba7). “Fazio left the day before I took office as CEO,” says Sergio, “I confirmed Annunziata, Gramellini, the report, etc.” programs Are defined ‘ideological‘ inside Rai: Honestly, it seems to me like talking about purge impossible“. The term ‘ideological’, he stresses, ‘refers exclusively to a definition commonly used in the media.’ For this reason I would like to reiterate that these are important programs expressing a plurality of views and narrative methods , in the name of adding rather than subtracting, which I think would like to be the hallmark of public service.” As for Lucy Announcedthe CEO specifies that he “expressed positive reviews in all my assignments, even in supervision” and who had promised an additional half hour for the next season “without any censorship And conditioning“.
For Sergio, the governance of Rai needs to be changed. But as we understand it, it is not a question of (finally) ousting the parties from public television. Rather, there is a risk of “fragmentation”, as the manager of Viale Mazzini calls it. “I believe this law needs to be reformed. I imagine that there will be states-general who will certainly not be able to introduce a different form of governance in a year, but for the next summit,” he explains. “That’s clear when the time comes.” is a discipline that offers that two consultants of the directors are elected by the Roomtwo of senate and one gives Employees the companyyou have a fragmentation which does not allow you to have one strong and coherent governance: it’s a problem”. In any case, he emphasizes: “I am the CEO and I exercise my powers: I was elected after appointment and therefore I am in a position to direct the company”.
A joke is reserved for the (somewhat unbelievable) case of Claudio Lippi, who called a “scoundrel” in an interview. Fabio Facio and apostrophized the former head of prime-time programming Stefano Coletta He said that “the director, who fortunately no longer exists, only let gay men and women work because they were gay”. After Rai clarified that Lippi will not be working with Rai, Sergio comes back and explains: “Nobody can talk about colleagues, by Rai in the terms used by Claudio Lippi: nobody”. For Sergio “Lippi is a nice person, but he made a sensational mistake.”
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