“They wanted to destroy the communists’ RAI; they simply destroy the RAI.” Corrado Augenias announces his departure from Rai in a dispute with the management desired by the Meloni government. It was already known from the presentation of the schedule that the journalist would no longer host some of his programs broadcast on Rai3, but the decision still causes a stir since it comes after 63 years of militancy in Viale Mazzini.
“A government that has generally proven to be ruthless and incompetent has achieved the greatest possible efficiency, not less, in the progressive destruction of Italian radio and television,” says Augias, who arrives on La7 to present the cultural program “The Tower of Babel “ to introduce ‘, every Monday in prime time from December 4th. The farewell to Augenias, which thus leaves in limbo the third possible edition of the La Gioia della Musica program, the only remaining hypothesis of permanence in the third network, follows those of Fabio Fazio, Bianca Berlinguer and Massimo Gramellini, who also reinforced good results at the competition and Lucia Annunziata, to name just the most striking names. Then there is Roberto Saviano, who was supposed to host “Insider – Crime Face to Face”. “The CEO of Rai never said that it was closed because I violated the code of ethics, which in fact I did not violate,” the author explains to Le Iene. “He said it was his decision, among other things, it was in his faculties. It’s purely political revenge, terrible.” The programs that have arrived have not achieved the desired results, at least for the moment. Little by little, “Avanti Popolo” by Nunzia De Girolamo and “Il mercante in Fiera” by Pino Insegno came under fire from criticism, but also Bianca Guaccero with “Liberi tutti”, Max Giusti with “Fake Show” and Camilla Raznovich “Macondo” . “After Fazio, Annunziata, Berlinguer, Gramellini and the penalty against Saviano, Rai also loses Augenias and is doing his private competitors a favor. Without product strategy, content and quality names, ratings plummet. The public service must regain its authority,” supports city councilor Francesca Bria. “Rai practically dismantled the new Rai leaders installed by the Meloni government,” emphasizes the leader of the Alliance of Greens and Left, Peppe De Cristofaro. Also worrying is the government’s decision to reduce the fee from 90 to 70 euros, which will bring less funds to the coffers of Viale Mazzini, but which will, however, be almost entirely offset by the 420 million for next year and probably the following two as well becomes. In any case, the lack of certainty about resources, as well as the loss of around 20 million annual transfers, have led the board to adopt an increase in advertising caps, although this does not seem to be on the agenda at the moment. However, on the agenda is the Supervisory Commission hearing of report presenter Sigfrido Ranucci (together with Rai Insights director Paolo Corsini), which the opposition sees as intimidation of the journalist. In defense of the moderator and freedom of the press, Articolo 21 has organized a march of legality that will take place in conjunction with the hearing at the Pantheon in Rome.
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