The reformist wave that sweeps the Rai talk shows, accused of not corresponding to the idea of public television conceived by Mario Draghi, does not stop, on the contrary. Too many minimal interventions that were not conclusive that forced Palazzo Chigi to take a decisive step towards clarity.
Thus, a few hours before the guiding rules for the talks were dictated in the Vigilance, there was a meeting of four, present CEO and president of Rai, Carlo Fuortes and Marinella Soldi, the undersecretary to the Prime Minister Roberto Garofoli, and Giancarlo Giorgetti owner of the Mise to which the Service contract belongs. And this is exactly what we talked about, the profile of the contract that must be observed in transmissions and cannot ignore a super partes address. Hence the intervention of Fuortes during the hearing in the Rai Vigilanza, where he listed the directives just received that outline the profile of the state TV to come.
A turn of the screw on the spectacularization of talk shows and on the choice of opinion leaders, guidelines that want a reinforced journalistic study but no longer the prerogative of talk shows, indicated instead to address light topics. The reference to Cartabianca, and to Bianca Berlinguer who leads that program overwhelmed by a sea of controversy, it is understood and has definitive consequences. Therefore the program will not resume after the summer break. Although in that four-party meeting the name of Cartabianca it was not done in terms of permanent termination. Indeed, the invitation focused above all on the ability to rethink and comply with the guidelines, therefore in setting up new offer systems where the use of adversarial is foreseen. And, according to the participants at the meeting, this aspect, in the Rai3 program, was not defined. No suppression of broadcasts was hoped for in that venue, even if Rai is certain the news of the closure of the talk show which saw several uncomfortable appearances, from Corona to Professor Orsini who brought Cartabianca to be accused of pro-Putinism.
In fact, some time ago there was even talk of the offer of an alternative program aimed at Berlinguer, a second evening on Rai1. A forty-minute streak, a hypothesis that died before it was even considered. Then there was talk of a change of management and the advent of Roberta Rei, correspondent for Hyenaswith Giorgio Zanchini, a different program in that location that would hardly be able to compete with Floris on La7, which is why Cartabianca had been thought of. In this way, it is said in Rai, the victory of the Democratic Party is clear, which immediately pointed the finger at the little tameable program.