He is witness to another Italy. Witness and narrator, with a vivid memory of the metamorphoses of a country, both in political terms and in the ways and men called to inform. Gianni Minoli brought to Dogliani that story of the Italy that he lived and told through the comparison of the men who governed it, some politically, some economically.
For a long time the dialogue with Salvatore Merlo focused on two of the greatest exponents of Italianness of the last fifty years: the lawyer Gianni Agnelli and the knight Silvio Berlusconi, «the man who inherited and administered an empire on his own , and the self-made man living three lives.” A different era politically, but also on television. «I was 35 years old at the time of Mixer, they were all young in the editorial offices, Camilleri was head of service, there was Furio Colombo, a cutting-edge company in the country».
And Rai today? Minoli made no concessions: «It seems old in content, technologically, aimed at an older audience and overloaded with debt and employees». There are 15 thousand. Does teleMeloni exist? «It is a useless slogan, state television is regulated by law and the law says what the Board of Directors must be like. We need to change the law.”. And again on Meloni: «she has taken the problem of being a leader on the right side, today under the sky there is total disorder and it is important to start from the world, she moves well. The real problem is that Europe was really born only with a foreign policy, a common army, a fiscal policy, an industrial policy and the ability to decide by majority. In the absence of these five elements, Europe cannot be born.”
On stage on the third and last day of the TV Festival he also brought the memories of when with Paolo Guzzanti they had fun making prank calls to illustrious people: «Several times Paolo passed himself off as Sandro Pertini, we also managed to fool Minà into thinking he was was invited to lunch at the Quirinale by the president himself. He only discovered it was a joke when he showed up in livery to be welcomed into the palace.” His version of the lawyer is excellent.
He likes Francesca Fagnani’s interview model, «even if it has the limitation of interviews edited in post production. I sent the footage as it was, without the possibility of modification.” Then she left the stage, after a meeting that attracted an audience of hundreds of people, many standing despite a decidedly summer sun. Backstage, the small surprise party for his birthday, which falls today, May 26, 1945. He also received good wishes from the audience when he entered the stage.
