The new plan that gives Rai to the League: Foa snatches the scepter from Salini and is alone in command
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. Read More