Roberto Sergioto the RaiAnd Giampaolo Rossigeneral manager, said they only learned of the illness of the journalist Frank From Seawho told about his cancer incurable to Fabio Fazio during his participation in the program “What’s the weather like” on the Nine. The managers of public television therefore expressed their solidarity and willingness to support Di Mare, after the journalist had criticized Rai in a harsh way due to the lack of human support received, in his situation, in an attitude that he defined as “repugnant”.
Franco Di Mare and the disease: Roberto Sergio and Giampaolo Rossi found out about the tumor yesterday
The highs senior executives Rai they would only have learned yesterday, therefore, of the cancer Of Franco Di Marejust like any other viewer of “What’s the weather like“.
In an official communication from public television, the CEO Roberto Sergio and the general manager Giampaolo Rossi they then recited a partial “mea culpa”.
Rai CEO Roberto Sergio (left) and general director Giampaolo Rossi
In the note, both profess to be unaware of the situation and demonstrate their solidarity with the journalist, offering their commitment to providing him with all possible support.
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Franco Di Mare, connected to “Che tempo che fa”, explained that he can only participate in the broadcast thanks to an automatic respirator that allows him to participate.
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The journalist spoke about the severity of his illness, a mesothelioma. “I got a very bad tumor that you get because you breathe in asbestos particles without knowing it and once the fiber is released into the air, it has a very long shelf life and when it manifests itself it’s too late” he said.
“To say that this is where hopes end is not true, because science always moves forward. I am here to celebrate a solution that could be discovered, let’s hope that there is a solution and that it is not that far away” added Di Mare.
Franco Di Mare’s criticism of Rai: “repugnant silence”
Di Mare, touched by the public’s affection, then responded to Fazio’s question regarding his possible regret for not having been supported by the company in its most difficult moment.
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The journalist complained about the absence of human support from “the whole of Rai, all the management groups”, referring to the managements preceding the current one. “I understand that there are union and legal reasons: I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to find out what could be done”.
“I can’t understand the absence on a human level” added Di Mare, “people to whom I addressed you but who denied themselves on the phone. I find only one adjective: it is repugnant.”
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