“We will tell you the happy ending to the internal brawls within this network.” Enrico Mentana thus opened the 8pm news, anticipating the report dedicated to the exchange he had with his colleague Lilli Gruber in recent days. “We checked that there wasn’t an advert against incontinence before”, quips the director of La7 before reading the press release released today by the company on the merits of the matter. “I agree”, he reiterates and adds that he apologizes to anyone who may have felt negatively affected by the company, “but we have been accused of things that are not true. Never exceeded a quarter of an hour, at most 5 minutes. We don’t want to be more accused”.
The company press release invites mutual respect and at the same time towards the issuer. “La7 is achieving excellent results thanks to everyone’s contribution and valuable team work – stated the editor -. For this reason it is essential that mutual respect is never lacking. Just as it is essential that respect towards a company that has among its founding values freedom of expression and the responsible autonomy of its hosts and journalists”. In short, no insults, but no bickering either, which could damage the image of the network owned by Urbano Cairo. “A company – continued the broadcaster – which over the years 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 it must always be preserved and protected by part of all of us, who work on it every day with passion and pride”. A few seconds and Mentana’s response arrived from social media, with a simple but eloquent: “I subscribe”. This is followed by the presenter’s reply, also rather sparse: “I have shared the line and rules of my company for sixteen years”.
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