The fate of television seems to be sealed Philip Faci. After the wave of protests over the words of the journalist, Libero’s main firm, on the La Russa Júnior case (with the girl alleged victim of sexual violence defined as “undoubtedly drugged with cocaine before also being drugged by Leonardo Apache The Russian»), another chapter on the editorialist was added yesterday to embarrass the upper floors of viale Mazzini. A warning that Facci received from the Milan police station, after his ex-partner denounced him for harassment.
And it matters little that the person concerned defends himself by speaking of “an obedient act”, linked to a particularly heated exchange of emails with the mother of his children (“the attacks against me are a pretext to attack the government”, his line). At this point, it is very unlikely that he could lead the daily strip before 13:00 Tg2, in the time slot of September 18, which should have been called precisely “I Facci yours”.
THE MEETING
The story will arrive this morning at the public television board of directors. To formally raise the case in the council, if ever there was a need, the councilor in proportion to Rai employees, Riccardo Laganà, took care of it. Who explains that he has sent a “formal letter” to the “senior management of Rai”, also signed by colleagues Francesca Bria and Alessandro Di Majo (expression of Pd and M5S), to ask if “in light of recent events and past, the chosen collaborator is in line with the ethical values and the mission of the public service.” “Indignation and protests – Laganà sinks – must be followed by concrete actions”.
In short, listening to what is whispered on the seventh floor of state television, it is possible that in the end, to put an end to the case, a vote will not even be necessary. The managing director, Roberto Sergio – who, according to those who spoke to us in the last few hours, would have been the first to assess what to do – could simply recognize that the conditions for collaboration no longer exist. There is still no signed contract between Facci and Rai. In short, his farewell would be much easier to manage than that of Bianca Berlinguer (for whom, by the way, there is still no replacement hypothesis in the schedule, since the choice of Monica Giandotti would have been temporarily “frozen” due to excessive of reflexion) .
The strip before Tg2, in any case, will remain: “It’s on the schedule”, the confirmation of viale Mazzini. And now names of possible replacements are already being whispered. The requirements? A profile “alla Facci” but less divisive, capable of giving an “irreverent and ironic” reading of the events of the day.
THE ANSWER
Meanwhile, the journalist defends himself: “They are the pretext to bomb the government,” he observes, “any journalist at this stage finds himself experiencing a kind of blackmail.” While the accusation of harassment with relative warning, he says, is a “very minor matter: we are talking about a person I left in 2019.” To then add that “it’s an email exchange and that’s it”, and “I also denounced this person because he put his hands on me in front of others.”
Among the few who defend the editorialist is Vittorio Sgarbi: “The sentence – admits the Undersecretary of Culture – was not in good taste, but he regretted it.” For her part, the secretary of Pd Elly Schlein is clear: “Anyone who expresses himself in that way is incompatible with public television.” While Bárbara Floridia, pentastellata president of the Rai Supervisory Commission, announces her intention to examine the case and says that she expects “a serious and rigorous position from the company”: “We are preparing to work on the new service contract -said sinks-. It would be contradictory and denigrating to talk about equal opportunities and the fight against sexism if all this could even run the risk of being denied in practice”.
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