“Serena Bortone it had to be fired for what he did.” At the party of Sheet in Venice, the CEO of Rai Roberto Sergio he lashes out again at the presenter What will be…subjected to disciplinary proceedings by the company for his public criticism of the Scurati case. Bortone, in fact, had denounced with a post on social media the cancellation “without plausible explanations” of the writer’s contract Antonio Scuratiwhich he should have read in his broadcast a monologue on April 25th quite critical of the Meloni government. “The 11th of this month will represent his theses and we will evaluate, but certainly a no employees of no company would be allowed to say things against the company in which he works. She did this and she was not punished“, attacks Sergio, appointed to the top of the public service by the current executive.
On the matter, Rai and the center-right have always maintained that the reason for the cancellation was the excessive economic demand of the tenant (1,800 euros). The prime minister herself Giorgia Meloni he relaunched this version, publishing the text of the monologue on his social networks. “I believe that some people have an extraordinary ability to overturn the truth and to become victims at the same time and then heroes of the country and the system. I sent a WhatsApp to Serena Bortone where I invited her to broadcast Scurati’s monologue. Nobody would have prevented that monologue. Furthermore, in the program schedule it was written:free guest“”, says Sergio.
So now Bortone’s future at Rai is at risk: according to multiple sources, the presenter’s broadcast could be cancelled or resized from next season’s schedules. Sergio evades the question on this: “The schedules will be presented to top management on Friday next week. To date, none of us are aware of what genre directors will bring us. So it’s news that doesn’t exist right now,” he says. And he rejects the accusations of partisanship against the government (against which, last May 6, public service journalists went on strike): “TeleMeloni? Rather I would call it Teleoppositions. Never before in my management has there been such a correct balance. Indeed, the opposition is prevalent, the government much less so and the majority more or less balanced”.
The CEO confirms the “relay pact” between him and the general manager Giampaolo Rossi, who will exchange roles after the European Championships – at the end of Sergio’s mandate – on the recommendation of the prime minister, who wanted to guarantee Rossi a full three-year period at the helm of the company. “A year ago I was asked to complete the three-year term” after the resignation of Carlo Fuortes, appointed by the Draghi government. “I accepted and appointed Giampaolo Rossi as director, whom I respected and continue to respect. Now he will be the next CEO and I will be the next CEO. There is no problem”. Then he denies that there was anything similar to a purge in Rai, despite the farewells of two important progressive-oriented hosts such as Lucia Annunziata – now running for the European elections with the Democratic Party – e Fabio Fazio: “Lucia Annunziata was already a candidate at the time, when she decided to leave, it was clear that was his goal. It can be said that the controversies of the time were instrumental. They wanted to claim that the purger had arrived, but that’s not true. Everyone who left did so for personal choice, economic or political. No one was sent away.”
Attacking Sergio for his outings is Francesco Verducci, Democratic Party senator and member of the Supervisory Commission: “The CEO’s sentences against the journalist Serena Bortone are simply shameful. It is the arrogance of a power that has become censorship And intimidation“, he writes in a note. “Moreover, we remember Roberto Sergio’s perfectly social media outings against the company Rai at the time of a Sanremo. and in another context against his fellow director Andrea Vianello. So obviously everything is worth it to him. Others, however, should be fired. In reality, Sergio’s attempt to do so is evident cover censorship against Scurati. No one has yet given a valid answer as to why Scurati’s contract was canceled once the top management became aware of the contents of the monologue. And it is clear the attempt to prepare the ground forpurge by Serena Bortone, guilty of autonomy and pluralism. Sergio attacks a journalist who acted in the interests of the credibility and autonomy of the public service, prerogatives which evidently annoy him.”
