The latest episode of It’s not the Arena has sparked a flurry of controversy on social media. Massimo GilettiReturning to the origins of the envoy profession, he decided to direct the program from the sad theater of war: a journey to the affected areas, which he narrated through images, testimonies and links to the envoys from the other fronts of the conflict. His presence in Odessa, the city in Ukraine besieged by the Russians, provoked the angry reaction of Wild Lucarelli: The journalist has entrusted her thoughts to several tweets, without sparing severe judgments against the moderator of Non è arenena.
Lucarelli’s attack
Lucarelli recalled the existence of the closing hour at 20 and therefore asked for explanations on the presence of Giletti on the street. In this sense, he put forward two hypotheses: “Either he violated it, or the beginning was registered”. He then spoke unequivocally of another aspect, which he described as the “most disturbing: the finger kept pointing at the conductor of It is not the arena in Odessa, “who was supposed to be narrating the war and suddenly everything seems to be the set of a serial B Movies”.
The most disturbing thing is that you see Giletti in Odessa narrating the war and suddenly it looks like the whole set of a Bmovie.
Selvaggia Lucarelli (@stanzaselvaggia) March 20, 2022
In the morning Lucarelli logged off the first part of the connection Odesa it would have been registered around 6.45pm or just before curfew. “Of course he was careful not to say it, so as not to take away the thrill of the audience. And indeed the connection to the studio was in a club,” thundered the journalist. Who had not previously missed an equally harsh excavation: “Never like tonight must we respect those who document the war without personalities, without spectacle, without rhetoric, without funeral shows, without his big face in front of what is happening”.
Giletti’s answer
Is it likely that the episode’s opening was taped before the curfew hit? Giletti’s reply was not long in coming, and while maintaining a matteroffact tone, he took a few pebbles from his shoe and teased the journalist. “I think Lucarelli is expressing her best when she raises her flippers to Dancing with the Stars. She doesn’t deserve any other comment,” the Not is the Arena moderator, contacted by Adnkronos, responded. The broadcast also sparked controversy over the raw reports that revealed the horrifying reality in Ukraine.
The intervention of Rita Dalla Chiesa
Social media users are divided: on the one hand, there are those who accuse Giletti of making an exhibitionist move to try to increase the reach of his program; On the other hand, there are those who recognize the brave gesture and emphasize the importance of journalists on the ground. It should side with Giletti Rita Dalla Chiesawho rejected the thesis that it would not have been the arena to have shown certain images for the purpose of publicity.
Better read the agencies in the studio, right? But few have the courage to go where a hateful, unacceptable war is being waged. And to show the death this war produces. Near ALL envoys risking their lives under the bombs.@GilettiMassimo
rita dalla chiesa (@ritadallachiesa) March 20, 2022
The wellknown TV host pointed out that Giletti did not limit himself to reading the agencies and updates in the studio, but chose to be on the theater of war in the first person: “Few have the guts to go where a hateful War takes place fought, unacceptable. He not only risks the envoys. He’s risking himself. Rita Dalla Chiesa also expressed her solidarity with all the journalists on the ground who continue to report on Russia’s military operation in Ukraine despite being at constant risk.