According to the Financial Timeshe boss Exor John Elkann he experienced a horrible 2025: the Agnelli heir would be “frustrated” and “gripped by problems”. May the technical and sporting crises pass Ferrari e Juventusthe two “toys” inherited from grandfather Gianni, the Lawyer. The problem is what to do with an important branch of his empire: publishing. With Republic in seller and neighboring to the Kyriaku from Antenna Group e the Press to unpack from Gedi Group and to blame (to whom, we still don’t know), new fronts have opened up in this fiery December.
And it is Massimo Giannini, former director of The Press and flagship signature of Republicto push him in every way possible. The last one, the column of letters on Friday. “Dear Giannini, I’m reading Republic since the foundation, and I look with horror and concern at what is happening in the Gedi group. What will become of the newspaper with which I grew up and learned freedom and democracy?”, writes reader Ilaria Michelotti, giving rise to an answer that leaves little room for the imagination.
On Tuesday, Massimo Giannini tears up his newspaper: “Repubblica, unworthy end”
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“Dear Ilaria, your confusion is mine too. These rich and mediocre Italian capitalistsgiven to information purely for personal convenience, they did a deserter and they called it publishing”, are the ready-made words of Giannini, who evidently understood the trend and decided to remove all the pebbles from his shoes, the right one and obviously the left one.
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“Con Republic many of us have grown up. With Republic Italy has grown. Today this heritage is in danger: it was necessary to take care of it and protect it in these years senseless destruction of value”. Years, it must be said, in which we do not remember any particular outcry from the big names in the editorial team, or at least from those who chose to stay there. “I just hope that it is not too late, but I am certain that Eugenio Scalfarithe great Barbapapa to whom we owe everything, is turning in his grave”. A rather easy prophecy to make today.
Luciana Littizzetto, drama against Elkann: “Repubblica is not a chip kiosk”
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