"In recent months I have registered a series of critical issues. These ultimately resulted in the failure to send the essential documentation for the presentation of the program. entire autumn-winter schedule ".
Thus
the CEO of Rai Carlo Fuortes motivated the decision to revoke the proxies of the In-depth genre to Mario Orfeo, before proposing to him the direction of Tg3.
"Last June 1st - the CEO recalled - I communicated to Dr. Mario Orfeo the lack of the necessary conditions for a fruitful collaboration as director of the In-depth study. In recent months I have registered a series of critical issues. resulted in the failure to send the essential documentation for the presentation of the programming of the genre. In-depth analysis within the foreseen time frame. The lack of the documentation in question caused the cancellation of the presentation to the board of directors of the entire autumn-winter 2022-2023 schedule, scheduled for last June 1st ".
"As should have been done, all the other gender directors had long since sent the necessary documentation - underlined Fuortes -. I believe it is essential,
"The centrality of in-depth analysis, even in a transformation process such as the one the company is experiencing, is a crucial problem and is the reason why I decided to make this change. Not to have the schedule - Orfeo had to send it by 25 May, we had a board meeting the following Monday and then Wednesday -, it meant not having clarity on an indispensable aspect ", said Rai CEO Carlo Fuortes, answering the questions of the parliamentarians in the Supervisory Commission, regarding the revocation of the proxies on the In-depth study to Mario Orfeo and his passage to the direction of Tg3.
"Orfeo was a great news editor, but it is a profoundly different job from the director of a genre - added Fuortes -.
it is obvious that it would have been better not to.
The company, however, is quietly moving forward, there is no problem.
The idea that the director is the center of Rai's business is wrong.
The programs are made by directors, authors.
There are very strong changes, Rai2 is changing, in a few months you will see an absolutely new TV ".
Romano (Pd), very disappointing, no changes on the talks -
"The words of Fuortes in Vigilanza were very disappointing. A month and a half after having officially announced, in front of Parliament, the need to review the infotainment format in Rai talks, archiving the continuous search for a fight, there is no sign of change but on the contrary, a further worsening of the situation on the issues of the war unleashed by Putin but also on other issues. This is all the more serious when Italy is now under international observation for the permeability of our televisions (private and public) from part of the disinformation strategy promoted and coordinated by the Putin regime ".
This was stated by Andrea Romano, deputy PD and member of the Supervisory Commission, commenting on the hearing of Fuortes before the Supervisory Commission itself.
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We also witnessed so-called debates on the RAI on Putin's aggression against Ukraine where the arguments of the killers were put on an equal footing with the arguments of the victims - he continued -.
It is as if, by projecting these false debates in the 1940s, the public broadcasting service had introduced a level playing field between Anne Frank and Goebbels.
And this is absolutely unacceptable.
The explanation that you then gave on the Orpheus affair is frankly embarrassing and not at all credible.
Telling that the person in charge of the investigations no longer enjoys his trust because "he has not handed over a sheet" does a disservice to his intelligence and to the dignity of parliament.
The explanation that is obtained is instead another.
New products introduced by Orfeo have been launched for the future (I am thinking of the Damilano strip, the Zanchini program, etc.).
But we do not want to intervene in any way on the programs in place, despite the very demanding declarations that you have made in front of Parliament.
And this unwillingness to intervene, which evidently calls into question his responsibility, was intended to hide behind this confused and inexplicable decision to remove the person in charge of the investigations (who, we are entitled to think, perhaps some change wanted to introduce him and precisely in the direction desired by you and then not respected) ".
despite the very demanding declarations that you have made in front of Parliament.
And this unwillingness to intervene, which evidently calls into question his responsibility, was intended to hide behind this confused and inexplicable decision to remove the person in charge of the investigations (who, we are entitled to think, perhaps some change wanted to introduce him and precisely in the direction desired by you and then not respected) ".
despite the very demanding declarations that you have made in front of Parliament.
And this unwillingness to intervene, which evidently calls into question his responsibility, was intended to hide behind this confused and inexplicable decision to remove the person in charge of the investigations (who, we are entitled to think, perhaps some change wanted to introduce him and precisely in the direction desired by you and then not respected) ".
