After the Report-Sangiuliano case, Rai intends to review the role of deputy director ad personam for Ranucci. The right is pushing to eliminate the “indemnity” for Rai journalists. CEO Rossi's doubts
It wasn't Tele Meloni, but rehearsals of Tele 'mbriachi, Rai drunk. A director who has returned to Rai announces a lawsuit for an audio broadcast by Rai, the leaders of Rai do not know the contents of Rai, and when they know them they cannot modify them “because it is too late to change the setlist”. The Report case, the broadcast of private conversations between the former minister Sangiuliano and his wife, could be resolved with an epochal decision. FdI, Lega and Forza Italia are now asking CEO Giampaolo Rossi to eliminate indemnity, the legal protection that relieves Rai journalists from criminal and economic risks. They ask Rossi how it was possible to air that “filth”, a “shameful” page, also stigmatized by the master of television criticism, Aldo Grasso, in the Corriere. They want to make Rai employees, who are easily sued, feel when it comes to them what it means to do journalism and pay with their own account. The next commercial will be “Rai, di tutti, e di meno”.
The target is Sigfrido Ranucci, host of Report, but eliminating the indemnity, Rossi would have replied, to those who continue to ask him, would mean eliminating it for all Rai journalists. And it is not excluded. What will certainly be changed is the role of the deputy director ad personam. There are three: Ranucci, Milo Infante and Alberto Matano. They are bonuses that do not correspond to responsibilities. The three do not manage facilities, but as deputy directors they manage themselves. In January, off. Therefore remove the indemnity, remove the rank of deputy director ad personam. In order to make up for itself in the eyes of the spectators, of Meloni, of the critics, Rai wants to remove these prerogatives and if only Ranucci would go somewhere else, to La7, to Nove, take away the program from him, which Rai is now claiming: ” It is a program created with Milena Gabanelli and which Ranucci has distorted. A program that will remain on Rai whatever happens.” Now to make Ranucci slip out, to invite him to exodus, the broadcast system and the “destructive phase of its host”, who is said to be “obsessed with ratings”, are called into question. Who should direct it, the director of Insights, Paolo Corsini, right-wing director, has always replied: “You try it”. Another attempt was made to offer the Insights box to the League, but the League, cleverly, immediately had the direction of Tgr handed over to Roberto Pacchetti, who took the interim position after Casarin's exit. It was enough for Salvini to say during a majority summit “look, if we don't appoint Pacchetti, the interim will go to Fontana, the oldest co-director of the Democratic Party” to resolve the issue. Meloni accepted. The League thus maintains the machinery of the Tgr, a regional power, with services halfway between the festival and the flattery of the town politician. Rai is the TV where the directions are divided up like Christmas nougat and the director doesn't direct. They can't even watch a difficult broadcast, talk to Ranucci, its host, and tell him, as happens anywhere in the world, perhaps “it's better if we see this passage again”. Last Sunday, only at lunchtime did the leaders realize that the episode of Report with the audio broadcast was a very high legal risk. It would have been enough to reassemble the ladder but the leaders replied that “it's too late”. In a newspaper, even the most down-to-earth one, up until the last minute, before closing, you can replace piece by page, modify. In Rai, the excellence of journalism, a group of journalists who allow themselves to explain to others how to do their job, no. Again: is Ranucci good or is it the modesty of those who are unable to work together and direct him? Thanks to his rank, Ranucci is his own director, he hosts, an old innovation of the late Franco Di Mare, former director of Rai 3 and host of his own program. The first, and most astute, to revive a provision that prevented directors from conducting was Antonio Marano, the acting president, now destined to remain president of Rai. It came close. The old circular applied only to directors and not to deputies. The Report case offers the opportunity to eliminate the rank, it remains to think about the indemnity strongly requested by the majority parties. FdI's question is this: “Without indemnity, would Report continue to air the investigations at the limit?”. Ranucci has always declared that Report has never lost a legal case but Rai leaders note that in truth the cases never reached a conclusion. In the Report-Sangiuliano case it is Rai against Rai. The former minister together with his wife (another Rai employee who should be protected by Rai first) have filed complaints and for days, the lawyers of this TV have met at the end of the night to understand which tunnel they are getting into. Any other television would have covered their faces, on Rai if there weren't any tears to be had, one would laugh. Ranucci went to Un Giorno da Pecora (also Rai) to guarantee that he had informed Sangiuliano, the other, Sangiuliano, makes complaints against those who passed audio to Report, the majority asks the CEO chosen by the government to remove the indemnity and 'ad must defend himself from his majority. Tele mbriachi is the only major thematic channel that Rai lacks.
