■ The bass drum started with his cry of pain, Saturday 20 April. Serena Bortone protested against Rai’s stoppage of the anti-Meloni program hosted by Antonio Scurati, and since that day it has been everywhere: reports on Vanity Fair, hosted on TV (also on Mediaset), political-cultural proclamations within its program Che will be… Yesterday, Bortone was on the front line in the foreign press room alongside the Fnsi secretary Vittorio Di Trapani: «I still haven’t received an explanation as to why Scurati’s contract was cancelled». Yet, despite the Bortone testimonial, the Rai journalists’ strike was a flop. And even her program, despite the monothematic monologues, remains anchored to the 4.3% share. Before the Scurati affair, the average was 3.9%. Is the effect of M.’s author already deflating?
■ Dark by name, dark by reputation, dark in fact, obscurantist by mission. Antonio Scuratiwho ended up in the eye of the storm for a disputed text on Matteotti and against Meloni, which was then read everywhere from Repubblica’s stage to the porchetta festival in Ariccia, today he is more sulky than when he talks about anti-fascism in public squares (that is, always).
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After the mess of the alleged “censorship” in Rai, and the international echo of the scandal, and the denunciation to the world of the invasion of Meloni dressed as Ilsa the SS beast, and the echo of the panzers certainly at the gates; well, the obscure Scurati finds himself taken aback. He expected at least the full solidarity of Rai, the reclamation of the site of his (his) crime. See first-hand the indifference of a large part of Rai to his exhausting martyrdom…
■ Frantically tossed between Naples, Bari, Reggio Calabria and Campobasso, in «a suffering south where winning will make the difference», Sandro Ruotolo it is being consumed, in these days, in a personal electoral Via Crucis. Loosened tie and short of breath, Sandrone is also struck by the twist of fate that sees him as an opponent at the European Championships of Michele Santoro, the Masaniello whose right-hand man he was for years. It is difficult, in this whirlwind of speeches, memories and votes torn one by one with the teeth, to be able to concentrate on Rai without suffering. Ruotolo is not Mastella. Yet the failure of the Usigrai strike is also a bit like him, when with the megaphone of the Democratic Party’s information manager he denounced the “subdivision” of state television. He, who was the heroic son of that same historic subdivision…
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■ «We are more than 900, a thousand are starting splits». It was the cruel Dario Vergassola who nipped in the bud any party ambitions with which Massimo Giannini had attempted to cloak his «April 25th Chat». A social network from which a light fragrance of apocalypse emanates. A chat which, with the excuse of partisan greetings, warned of Melonianian Nazi-fascism at the gates. Giannini is truly convinced that Rai has been horribly parceled out, except in the years in which he worked there. Chosen as a worthy replacement for Floris a I will dance, the current columnist of Republic brought a notable contribution to the definitive closure of the program. Those were the years in which the Pavia Observatory gave the scepter of subdivision to its Democratic Party.
