“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 “. Like this Rai CEO Carlo Fuortes gave reasons for 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 necessary, all the other gender directors had long ago sent the necessary documentation – underlined Fuortes -. I believe it is essential, even more so in such an important phase of transformation of the company, that there is maximum sharing and collaboration between those who hold top positions in the management involved “. “Subsequently – he concluded -, considering Dr. Orfeo’s professional value, I proposed the direction of Tg3 which had the approval of the large increase in the board of directors”.
“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’s a profoundly different job from the director of a genre – added Fuortes -. I acted quickly and I think I did the right thing”. “You think that the CEO is omnipotent and can do anything in the company, but this is not the case, by law – he continued -. The civil and criminal responsibility of the broadcasts does not belong to the CEO but belongs to the conductor. is, fortunately, omnipotent, the one who can do and appoint or remove the powers you give to the managers. Your concern about not having clarity is mine, and this not twenty days before the presentation but on the same day: Wednesday, when I have informed Orfeo that I could not continue, I had not yet received the program. I do not know where you read about programs coming in and out, but there was no presentation of the schedule. It has never happened to me to postpone a board of directors, I had to do it because I did not have information on a crucial topic. It was a duty, it is obvious that it would have been better not to. The company, however, goes smoothly, there is no problem. Rai 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. “We also witnessed so-called debates on the RAI on Putin’s aggression in 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, 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 you then gave on the Orpheus affair is frankly embarrassing and not at all credible. trust because “he did not deliver 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, to Zanchini’s program, etc.). tive that you made in front of the 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) “.
Source: Ansa
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