Therefore Rai is starting to change its face. On the contrary, to change his soul to tell the truth. According to the lines traced by the Foa-Salini couple ( president and CEO) with their editorial plan, approved by a majority of the board of directors, the public broadcaster will have a plethora of controllers guarding an army of controlled people. With one great result: pluralism will be just a mere fiction. Viale Mazzini, as has never happened in the past, will act as a sounding board for the government majority, even going beyond the concept of the positive narrative evoked, and request, at the time by Renzi. Today the ghost of single thought seems to be at work, to the point of making one regret the subdivision. With quotas there was at least some margin for meritocracy. Now that has been reset too. Only two no's against the editorial plan, that of board member Rita Borioni (at a progressive level), but also that of the councilor elected by the employees, Riccardo Laganà. The Plan sends TV channel directors into retirement (like RaiUno, RaiDue, RaiTre). These directors – who will have a Distribution Director above them – they will become simple program coordinators. They won't have the resources to buy and produce broadcasts. In the new setup, the programs will have to fish inside them 9 new Content Directions. These will have the economic budget and decision-making power – will be dedicated to entertainment (prime time, day time and cultural), to TV series, all fiction, to documentaries, to the boys, to experimental formats, to in-depth journalistic content. In an interview with Repubblica, councilor Rita Borioni reported that the 9 new Content Directions will lead to a multiplication of tasks. And not only that. Entire product chains (from TV series to in-depth journalistic content) they will be under the control of a single person, with potential damage to pluralism. Councilor Riccardo Laganà – he too was against the Plan – underlines an “unnatural graft”. The new channel in English, moreover required by the Service Contract that Rai signs with the State in exchange for the TV license fee, will be entrusted to RaiCom. The English channel therefore ends up under the orbit of the internal society (RaiCom) with the highest commercial vocation. Precisely the RaiCom that Marcello Foa has (also president of Rai) as president and Monica Maggioni as CEO. Councilor Beatrice Coletti (at 5 Star level and in favor of the Salini reform) he explained that the editorial plan innovates Rai's industrial model in the new era of pay-TV and web television, come Netflix. The reform will be costly in terms of cash flow (also because it involves strong investments in digital), But CEO Salini hopes for savings in the budget for 40 million by 2020. It remains to be seen how he will achieve his goal. The meeting of the board of directors was marked by tensions due to the meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Salvini and the CEO of public television, Salini. The Northern League leader's invasion of the field of state television affairs is criticized by the Italian journalists' union (the Fnsi), by the RAI journalists' union (the Usigrai), from Forza Italia as well as from the Democratic Party, as well as by the former general director Celli. Precisely the League – which has its strongman in the president of Rai Foa – he "suggested" postponing to the future the creation of a single newsroom where all the journalists of Saxa Rubra and the regional offices could gather. The unique newsroom – which the company has been discussing since 2015 in an anti-waste key – it won't take shape this time either. Rai information, for politics, more than a dogma, remains a taboo: It is forbidden to touch it. As it is, in conclusion, it's good for everyone. For the moment, In the end, the editorial offices of Rainews24 end up under the umbrella of a multimedia newspaper, of the regional newspaper TgR, of Teletext and also of the Internet portal Rainews.it. In short, if you wanted Big Brother, you found him. It's on viale Mazzini, where not even the television managers of the former Soviet Union had gotten this far.

Of Alberto Milani

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