Valerio Staffelli handed over the Golden Tapir to the director of Tg La7, Enrico Mentana, accused on Monday evening by Lilli Gruber of “incontinence”
Monday 6 May, Lilli Gruberat the opening of the talk show Half past eight on A7 he threw a jab at the director and presenter of the news, Enrico Mentana due to the late connection, a quarter of an hour later than the scheduled time. “Welcome to 8.46pm and not to half past eight. “Incontinence is a bad thing”declared the journalist.
Enrico Mentana to Striscia la Notizia: “It would be difficult to do twenty-hour TV marathons if I were incontinent”
The day after, Enrico Mentana published the audit curve of his news program on social media, venomously replying to Gruber.
“From one to nine percent in half an hour – declared Enrico Mentana on Instagram – This is the audience curve – completely similar to those of the previous days – of last night’s tgla7, marked by important and continuously updated events However, that news program was unpredictably followed by a harshly contemptuous judgment towards me by the person hosting the next programme, who is also the direct beneficiary of that upward curve every evening, a judgment that so far no one among the top management of La7 has heard the need to distance oneself. Small episode, but very indicative. At this point, as is right, I distance myself from the rude and the lazy.”
And it didn’t end here, live, the news director reiterated his line by also inviting the company to intervene:
“Last night we went a little long with the news, it was a crucial, very important day: the prospect of peace in the Middle East, the tragedy of Casteldaccia, near Palermo. Furthermore, like every Monday, there were our polls and the appointment with Milena Gabanelli’s Data Room. Every Monday, we went a little long, I apologize to the viewers. A little long, as was pre-established and agreed with those who follow us. Lilli Gruber, because I don’t like pretending not to know names and surnames, had very unpleasant and offensive words towards myself. I have been sitting here for 14 years to do this news, I have never voluntarily offended anyone, let alone my colleagues. who work on this network. I would like reciprocity in this regard and I would like from the company I work for that there was no silence that has accompanied this affair for 24 hours. Tomorrow evening we will see if there was anything, otherwise I will draw direct conclusions consequences”
The announcement didn’t take long to arrive. In a press note published this morning theeditor of La7, Urban Cairohe said he was proud of the “excellent results that the company is achieving, thanks to everyone’s contribution and valuable team work. Over the years, the company has been able to maintain and expand the level of employment, recover economically, and become a point of reference of excellence in the Italian information and cultural panorama. For this reason – he concluded – it must always be preserved and protected by all of us!”
And so we don’t miss anythingValerio Staffelli handed over the Golden Tapir complete with diaper to Enrico Mentana in the appointment of Striscia La Notizia which we will see this evening on Canale 5. “I don’t deserve it, there’s one option too many that would be more suitable for others”, he answered. “It would be difficult to do twenty-hour TV marathons if I were incontinent.” the news director said
On the statement released this morning by La7, Mentana he then commented: “He was tight, just like I am tight. And that’s fine: tight is the opposite of incontinent” Finally, Staffelli asked the journalist if he would be in negotiations to move to Nove, “to jump up two channels”. But the companion of Francesca Fagnani he relaunched with his return to Tg5, a far from far-fetched hypothesis: “Maybe I’ll make the jump two channels lower and it’s your dicks…”
