Zanchini then justified himself by saying that he wanted «to make it clear that hostile climate the Jews breathe. I had asked Professor Driessen if he was Jewish and I asked the same question to the senator. I just did it to make it clear the climate. If you listen to the broadcast you understand.” I heard it over and over again phrase “incriminated” and I am convinced of Zanchini’s good faith, which he then promptly did apologized to the senator. We all make mistakes: sometimes for the climate of the live broadcast, for the tension of the topics covered or for one lack of understanding of the text also by the defendants.
The accident (you can define it as a venial sin?) could have ended with an apology and a explanationnot forgetting that Zanchini is one of more scrupulous and prepared journalists of Rai, that its programs have always been characterized by correctness, which a past of professionalism speak for him. The president of the Forza Italia senators Maurizio Gasparri and the deputy Augusta Montaruli immediately intervened to denounce the journalist’s behavior, almost as if wanting to create a controversy that acted as a counterweight to Scurati case.
But the intervention that left me most perplexed is that ofItalian Journalists Associationwho asked for «a timely intervention by Rai and a clear and immediate position by the representative bodies, starting from the Fnsi and the Odg”. A good colleague slipped and there’s nothing better than giving him one blow on the head invoking the Order?
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