Afraid of political pressure? Riccardo Iacona, who returns with PresaDiretta from Monday 19 February at 9.20pm on Rai3, has no doubts and in response to a question from ANSA he explains: "I am the son of the Bulgarian edict, in this RAI room here in viale Mazzini there were Michele Santoro's press conferences, I was a kid and I was here, I remember them well. The walls were shaking. I am the son of a RAI where there was lava...", recalls Iacona.
And then he adds: "But as they say in Rome: I like it! I like it when there is debate, when there is conflict if everything is obviously based on quality and the relationship with the public. I know what censorship is , I know much more than others who always talk about it. Our program was closed and I didn't work for three years. Together with Santoro - Iacona continues - they shut the mouth of Biagi, the cornerstone of Italian journalism. Think of everything he has opened that season of military occupation of Rai by the Government. Then at a certain point, thank God, it ended but it was a very serious vulnerability. We must not go back to that thing there and to do so good will is not enough but we need to create reforms that allow to detach the decision of who should command in Rai a little, not too much, from the majorities that exist. Because this creates a destructive mechanism of good things and breaks that relationship of love with the public which is the most important thing about Rai and is still the his heritage".
He concludes: "And that's why I proudly work here and wouldn't go anywhere else."
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