"Five years ago both Salvini and Giorgia Meloni asked me for a hand : they wanted to have an opinion, an outside view on Rai, from those who know TV". And the answer was «that a smile is needed. Rai must enter Italian homes saying 'buonasera' . Lightly and intelligently, not with propaganda».

Thus the TV presenter Claudio Lippi , yesterday in Montecitorio, in an interview with La Stampa, an interview that has already raised a fuss and the immediate reaction of the state TV .

«I think of Fazio and Littizzetto. They are gone – continues Lippi -. Fazio told lies, saying that the commercials brought in three times what the program cost . But if it cost 450,000 euros per episode, did it collect 1,200,000 in advertising? Come on... Fazio was a scoundrel: they had already prepared a millionaire contract with Discovery».

Their TV, like that of Annunziata, would be for Lippi « Propaganda, 'kultura'. The interview with Minister Roccella? Bad, aggressive. That's not Rai ».

«I know Giorgia - continues Lippi - She is so generous: she first gave up her youth and now her family to do what she believes in. The companion is also a good person. We need a popular language. Giorgia is a 'commoner from Garbatella'. He won the elections speaking to Italian men and women. You need that language there ».

The presentation of the Rai schedules is just under a month away, but Lippi speaks of " a program, in prime time on Rai1, which I would like to call 'Condominio Italia' ". Lippi also swears that «it's time to bring talent to Rai. That hasn't been the case so far. Casalino, for example, does it consider itself a big press office? Stefano Coletta, the director who fortunately no longer exists, made gay men and women work only for the reason of being gay. Many and many who had no competence, Rai used to come out. So we straights should come out too, right?”

RAI'S REPLY – «Some of Claudio Lippi's statements reported by the media are detrimental to the reputation of Rai and its managers – the note issued in response by Viale Mazzini -. Therefore, any type of collaboration with the conductor is to be excluded.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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