The initiative of the journalists of the Republic is not intended to be a hostile act towards the new director Maurizio Molinari, to whom the editorial team now offers its collaboration with the same commitment, dedication and spirit of sacrifice that accompanied all the previous ones directions of this newspaper.
Nonetheless, the editorial team cannot fail to note how the publisher’s choice falls at a time never seen before for the country and for the whole planet, attacked by a pandemic that is sowing pain and death and is calling all of us to an extraordinary effort . And precisely on the day indicated as the date of the death of the director Verdelli by the anonymous men who have been threatening him for months, enough to push the Interior Ministry to assign him an escort. At least an embarrassing schedule.
The editorial staff of Repubblica, aware of the difficulties that the publishing sector is going through – and not from now on, will continue to do its part, but asks the new publisher to respect the sacrifices that journalists have been enduring for years and to prepare a industrial plan that includes investments and no further cuts. Least of all organic.
Repubblica is not and has never been a newspaper like any other. He has always had a strong identity expressed in a clear line. “It is an information newspaper which, instead of showing off an illusory political neutrality, explicitly declares that it has made a choice in the field.” These are the words used by the founder Eugenio Scalfari in his first editorial in 1976. Words that were valid then. And they are even more valid today.
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