AGI – “The Fool? How should I define someone who makes a celebratory episode about “our years” and who, with meticulous and scientific petty care, avoids even mentioning me the entire time? AND Linuscurrent artistic director of Radio Deejay, a break the silence with a Letter to Corriere della Sera In Reaction to Jody Cecchetto's video that went viralSon of Claudio, the accused of insulting his father by calling him a “fool.” Live radio commentary on the viewership of the documentary “Peolpe from Cecchetto” broadcast in prime time on Rai Uno.
“In these thirty years I haven’t done that I never made a statement against him, never – writes Linus – look for it, you won’t find it. In contrast to him, who never missed an opportunity to denigrate me. “Of course I understand the disappointment that the radio station he founded and then threw away has not only not gone under, but has continued to run at full speed,” emphasizes Linus, for thirty years! It must be terrible! But I ask myself, is it my fault?
THE Disagreements between Linus and Cecchetto they have emerged from the takeover of Radio Deejay by the L'Espresso Group by Carlo de Benedetti. “When in 1994 he decided to blackmail the group to which he had sold the radio four years earlier (“Give it back to me or I'll leave,” he said; “OK, leave,” they replied), I was a nobody – he writes in the clarification letter to Linus – only after his departure did the group, which had little knowledge of radio, ask Albertino (who was the rest at that time) to continue the radio and asked me to help him. I accepted, very ruthlessly, and the rest is history.”
The trigger of the new controversy between the two was precisely Linus' reaction after the documentary about Cecchetto was shown on Rai and he was not even mentioned.
During the usual radio session of the program “Deejay Gioca Italia”, Linus, in an exchange with Nicola Savino about the Auditel results, emphasized that Rai Uno had had little audience the previous evening, perhaps because “something uninteresting happened”.
Savino then replied “How stupid are you?” and Linus replied: “How stupid is that?” Hence the defense in a video on Instagram by Jody Cecchetto: “I was most sorry when you defined him as an idiot because he, as you said, is the person thanks to whom you basically exist and Radio Deejay exists.” . Even for that reason, ignoring everything else, I don't think he's that stupid.
“Linus came in 1984. I hired him and I emphasize that. Linus was my employee. Claudio Cecchetto himself told Corriere della Sera. “The Deejay's Gang that I founded on the radio was an ideas laboratory,” Cecchetto explained. “Gerry Scotti, Jovanotti and Fiorello exchanged views, opinions and visions at the beginning of their careers.” The documentary was primarily about this group of people who, as I said, have come a long way and continue to do so today are of great importance. That's why I tell Linus that he has belittled all these wonderful people.
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