without money, I would need the contract – Corriere.it

There is a climate of expectation around Rai’s decision on the collaboration contract (still not formalized) offered to the journalist Philip Faci
, author of a highly contested commentary on the La Russa jr. But the decision will come neither today nor tomorrow. Chief Executive Officer Roberto Sergio has no intention of pandering to what he deems undue pressure on his final choice of him. Yesterday, despite the climate around it being hot, he worked, together with the general manager Giampaolo Rossi, on the next dossiers, those to be closed before the August break. The weekend, on the other hand, will be a rest, given that the previous one was dedicated in part to the quarrels of the last few days.

Do us yes, do us no

The discussion on Facci s, Facci no, involves those in the company who take sides on the opposite sides. There is an internal one, made up of that part of the management who, while not considering the journalist of Free
sided with the right, he strongly wanted it, and that even now he would prefer to confirm his daily streak before Tg2. And then there are the cautious, those who believe that the question can no longer be resolved, especially after the flood of statements that the journalist has continued to release to explain his thoughts but, at this point, also to clarify aspects of his personal life, like the stormy parting.

Of course, others should have been the words to recover the situation: a short statement of clear and incontrovertible apology and then the silence. This in Rai was expected to close the story in the same way in which others, similar, had closed in the past. Sergio had hoped for this when he asked the directors Riccardo Lagan (employees) and Francesca Bria (Pd area) not to be pulled by the jacket.

Bad controversies have, if anything, increased, to the point that the Rai case has joined the others that are already agitating the majority. For this reason the opposition, which in the company and in Parliament has ridden the story, besieging the CEO, thinks it will be able to bring home the scalp of the polemicist and deal a blow to the new Rai.

The statements of Prime Minister Meloni

Against Facci yesterday, the declarations of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were considered who, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, stigmatized the reaction of Ignazio Russa in defense of her son and added: I tend to sympathize by nature with a girl who believes she denounce and I do not ask myself the problem of times. Words that are difficult to reconcile with Facci’s thesis that she put accused and accuser on the same level and who expressed perplexity about the 40 days that passed between the violence suffered and the complaint. And that Meloni has distanced himself from La Russa, she pushes Pd secretary Elly Schlein to say: I would have been greatly surprised otherwise. We have a female Prime Minister who must be on the side of women. Those of La Russa are unacceptable words.

Let us: Nothing that hasn’t happened to me before

For his part yesterday Facci, interviewed by Courier
, appeared sorry but also resigned: I have no money and the contract in Rai would be of great use to me. Then they won’t do it to me? Patience. Nothing that hasn’t happened to me before, he said. However, specifying that he has never been disbarred from the Order of Journalists: There was a censorship for my position on Islam. Never a repentance? Never. I am so. And I’m not a racist, I’m not a fascist, I’m not a sexist, and I’m not a victimizer. If anything, in this case, victim. Who knows.

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