Giada Oricchio March 28, 2022
The Metamorphosis of Alessandro Orsini: from the Professor of Sociology of Terrorism to “News”. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the geopolitician was invited to various TV programs and distinguished himself through his critical analyzes of the West and the Ukrainian President Selenskyj (“If he says I want all the mines, there will never be peace.” , ” You’d better give up”). Misaligned with general thinking about war. With Rai’s censorship, he himself became “the news”: a symbol of the purged, martyr of the gag. And to think that letting him discuss the conflict would have been enough for his listeners to form their own opinion.
This morning, Monday, March 28thEven Myrta Merlinor conductor of The air that pullsHe expressed his opinion on the Orsini case: “All my guests always come and only for freeI’ve been doing this talk for 10 years We never paid a guest. That’s important to say, firstly because you can do the shows for free, otherwise I’d already be closed, and secondly because that’s also a small guarantee of freedom. There is no privileged relationship with a guest and no one gets paid. I don’t judge and I don’t teach myself. I bring my experience.”
Despite the final clarification, it was a powerful dig at Bianca Berlinguer, who said in an interview: “If Rai bans contracts for guests, then that would mean closing the primetime talk shows.”
Afterwards, Merlino asked his “free” guests for an opinion on Orsini: whether it was normal for director Antonio Padellaro to invite people with different opinions without sharing them (“I don’t like being bullied, I realized that it provokes unpleasant reactions in others”), for Alan Friedman the same principle applies, but with a poisonous distinction. “I prefer not to comment on this professor other than to say that if he had taught at Harvard or Yale, he would have already been fired,” Friedman said, leaving Myrta Merlino almost speechless, surprised by the remarks. “The contradiction is right, it is right not to do interviews on the knee, but we must not give space to conspiracy theorists, extremists or people like the No Vax. This gentleman has an obsessive demeanor, legitimizing things based on false information and facts that don’t exist. “Sui no vax, I agree with you Alan,” the dismayed presenter replied, “because there is scientific evidence for vaccines. Opinions are another matter.
