“She should have been fired”, the storm in Rai does not abate. Returning to the storm that has most shaken Viale Mazzini in recent times is the CEO. Roberto Sergio who, guest of the Innovation Festival organized by The paperwithout mincing words he expresses himself on the case Bortone-Scurati with very harsh words towards the “rebel” presenter.
For those who have lived on Mars in the last two months, let’s do a recap of what happened. On the occasion of April 25, Liberation DaySerena Bortone had invited him to her show broadcast on Rai Tre writer Antonio Scurati, who was supposed to read a monologue on the topic. A few hours after the broadcast the hosted event was canceled by Rai and the presenter made everything known through her social channels, also underlining that she was unable to receive explanations from the company. On the evening of April 25th, she herself read Scurati’s monologue, underlining that it had been granted to her by the writer free of charge, since it had been replied by Rai that no financial agreement had been reached with the writer.
Following this storm, the company issued a disciplinary measure against the presenter of Che will be and a reduction in her presence on video in the next schedules being defined is expected.
Now the CEO Roberto Sergio returns to the issue by landing a sharp blow against the presenter. “Serena Bortone she should have been fired for what he did, and instead she was not punished“said Sergio, “In no company would it be allowed to make a post against the company he works for. Now on June 11th he will have the opportunity to clarify and we will make a decision”. On the accusations of censorship, the CEO instead replied: “There has been a great reversal of reality on the matter”, explains Sergio who, reconstructing those hours in close to April 25th he also claims to have sent a message “to Bortone to ask her to broadcast the Scurati speech, which did not come because he was not paid”.
This last statement received an immediate response from writer who denied itfor the umpteenth time, that his monologue was skipped due to money issues: “I categorically deny the Rai CEO’s statement according to which I would not have participated in Serena Bortone’s program because ‘I wasn’t paid’. “AND simply false. It is theyet another denigrating statement towards me. No one has ever offered me to participate for free. I challenge him to provide proof to the contrary”. “I reiterate that the Rai3 program What will be he commissioned a monologue from me about a month in advance, ensuring that I had full freedom on form and content. The economic agreement, perfectly in line with that of the writers who preceded me, had already been closed for several days.”
On the proposed downsizing for the “rebel” presenter in the next season, Sergio glossed over: “At this moment none of us knows the schedules, which will be presented next Friday”, while on the fact that the Rai has transformed into Telemelonidue to the intrusiveness of politics on editorial choices, replied: “More than anything they should call us Teleoppositions. They sent me a report from the Pavia Observatory. Never before in my management has there been space for opposition, while the time for the Prime Minister has been reduced”. However, how much of this time was spent in a constructive debate and not in a soliloquy is not known, however.
