Daniela Mastromattei
June 21, 2024
The Scurati case gave to the Bortone (false martyr) a popularity that he would never have achieved with his program. We don’t say it, the numbers say it. Before the weekend of pseudo-censorship (20 April), perhaps only his relatives and closest friends watched his Chesarà: the share was under 3%. In the midst of the controversial chatter, however, she managed to reach peaks of 5%, with the last episode at 6.11% to the happiness of mother Rai. One would think that the journalist needs a little help to get ratings, even if, despite the questionable Auditel and her way of doing television as if she were on the stage of an electoral rally, no one has questioned her as a professional. However, you forget that every year the schedules are revised, improved and if a program doesn’t work it is replaced. That’s how it is, you have to accept it. The fate of Chesarà, which aired on Saturday and Sunday evenings on Rai3, is still uncertain, nothing has been defined.
However, the companions use the opportunity to attack the government by taking Serena in procession. All that’s missing is the “santa immediately”. «Once the elections are over, the scores are settled and TeleMeloni takes no prisoners. The cancellation of the program Che Sara from the autumn schedules of the public service is proof of this. Bortone is penalized for doing her job with her back straight. In the Melonian Rai there is no room for pluralism, only singers of Giorgia’s deeds. The public service reduced to a megaphone of the majority and the government. The Rai top management is out of term and to be re-elected they must demonstrate total loyalty to the boss. But Rai is not of the right, Rai is of the citizens and the leaders must answer to them, not to Meloni” attacks the group leader of the Green and Left Alliance, Peppe De Cristofaro, president of the Misto group and member of the Rai Supervisory Commission.
Followed by the M5S group leader in the Rai supervisory commission Dario Carotenuto: «An imprudent decision to say the least. After the furious controversies that hit his broadcast, which also involved the work of Rai supervision, it is clear that this choice puts the Public Service back in the eye of the storm in a delicate moment also marked by reports on freedom of the press which see the our country in free fall.”
It’s still. «It cost Serena Bortone dearly to have made public the missed monologue on April 25th Antonio Scurati. TeleMeloni has not forgiven her and will not be able to conduct her Chesarà. Anti-fascism out of TeleMeloni and those who denounced censorship out”, adds Sandro Ruotolo, head of Information, Culture, Cultures and Memory in the PD secretariat. «We will do everything to defend article 21 of the Constitution. Outside Palazzo Chigi from RAI”.
It should be rememberedcrybaby intelligentsia that «Rai is occupied by the government, exactly as happened in previous governments». We’re not saying it this time either. Enrico Mentana says so, who is certainly not a man of the right, thus quashing conspiracy and victimization theories. Meanwhile, negotiations are underway with Maria Latella. She would have been contacted and offered her availability. At this point the gossip is divided between those who are ready to put both hands in the fire that the Chesarà program will not return to the screens. And those who claim that Latella will arrive on Rai3 over the weekend, who among other things interviewed Giorgia Meloni at the Trento Economics Festival.
«Uncontrolled rumors on programs. The RAI schedules for next season are being defined. The editorial departments are working on the drafting and the presentation to the Board of Directors is scheduled for next week. Therefore all the rumors and news that are circulating in these hours are not confirmed”, Rai responds. To find out more we will have to wait until July 19th, when the schedules in Naples will be officially announced. Their presentation to the Board of Directors is scheduled for 26 and 28 June.
There is still no news of the disciplinary measure on the Scurati case which concerns the presenter, it could result in a few days of Suspension. Bortone certainly will not be left without a job, as she is a journalist employed by the company, and not a face on contract like many others, she could be placed in a role other than that of hosting, while still remaining a Rai worker. Unless some competing network comes forward. In reality, during the interview she gave to Silvia Toffanin in her living room at Verissimo, Serena hinted that if a phone call from Pier Silvio arrived she would be ready to take flight.
