"The public will not be there for safety reasons, but we had already decided to give it up anyway. The lockdown has taught us to feel the weight of words more and that's why I don't want the public. I want the nonsense to echo into the void. of the studio. In the past, the roars of the audience cheered those who had said a stupid thing, but now you can hear the noise of the words and the consequent chill. We must all be more attentive to the words we use ".
Corrado Formigli is back on La7 tomorrow with the eleventh season of Piazzapulita, with the aim of aiming for the essential, leaving aside the frills of politics.
"The effort will be to become autonomous from politics - he says in an interview with ANSA -. If the political leaders want to come they will have to accept the comparison on the investigations that we will do, with a very strong attention to the news. While we talk about the referendum, between ordinary people are growing anguish about the economic scenario, worries about universities and schools, about health are growing. Faced with these major issues, the political debate is surreal. There is discussion about how long Prime Minister Conte will last or how many parliamentarians there will be . The issue is another, it is how parliamentarians choose them, how we create a better ruling class ".
Reportage and investigations at the center of the 35 episodes, produced by Banijay Italia.
"We want to enhance our team of reporters, so we will make a more compact and orderly broadcast, which will always revolve around the investigations filmed", adds the host.
It starts from the resumption of school, "a serious situation", and from an in-depth study of the covid deniers.
"How is it possible that in a country that has suffered 35,000 deaths, he forgot everything so quickly? We will try to understand what lies behind this oblivion".
"The faces of the show will be Antonio Padellaro, Selvaggia Lucarelli, Tito Boeri and Alessandro De Angelis and I am happy to announce the arrival of Mario Calabresi", says Formigli, who, as always, will be able to count on Stefano Massini's stories.
"He has started touring Italy now that the theaters are closed - he underlines - and will tell in his own way what he saw".
Among the guests of the first episode, the professor of Microbiology Andrea Crisanti, the immunologist Alberto Mantovani, the professor of San Raffaele Alberto Zangrillo and the writer Sandro Veronesi.
"I propose to do interviews with a more cultural slant, to characters who tell us what Italy will be like after Covid, with more attention to the big scenarios than to the very close news - explains Formigli -. In the first episode there will be, for example, the psychoanalyst Massimo Ammaniti who will explain what happens in the head of a child deprived of the school ".
In one of the first episodes, Salvatore Buzzi was also hosted to discuss the moral question in the capital.
"This season, after we have gathered around the government to try to stop the virus, we will press everyone to do their part - he continues -. The choices we make in the coming months will be decisive for the future of the country. We will have to be good at using al better the mountain of money that the EU has made available ".
On the subject of information, Formigli is convinced that the pandemic could further weaken the sector.
"Available budgets are shrinking and poorer information is harder. Publishers must do everything possible to ensure that information is protected as a primary asset."
Even smart working hides many risks, according to the conductor.
"Companies prefer it to avoid complications - he says -, but journalists must claim their centrality to ensure that an excess of rules does not negatively affect their work".