On Tuesday evening, Marco Damilano spoke about the migrant emergency in Lampedusa, a dramatic situation reminiscent of a biblical exodus: at 9pm more than 4,000 people had disembarked on a myriad of fragile boats. The island is collapsing, the memorandum with Tunisia does not work, just as the one with Libya did not work. To describe the tragic nature of the situation, Damilano had to connect first with an Ansa journalist from Lampedusa and then with a “Huff Post” journalist from Strasbourg, as if Rai journalists did not exist or were busy elsewhere.
Even if he will never admit it, Damilano has the air of a survivor: like one of the protagonists of «Lost» he now moves in an unknown and hostile environment, the horse has become a dragon and the building on Viale Mazzini a brightly lit penitentiary . He seems to be held hostage by no one knows who (we are always someone’s hostage). The voice is that of the penitent, even if there is no television without penance. And in fact in the opening episode of the new season of «The Tower and the Horse» (Rai3) he invited Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi to talk about the peace missions in Russia, Ukraine and then in China, but also about the presence of the church in forgotten territories, like Caivano. In his heart, those places all coincided with Viale Mazzini and its surroundings.
Damilano would like the figure of the resister more, the last partisan of in-depth analysis, now that Rai even has a director of in-depth analysis, now that Bruno Vespa’s strip has started again on Rai1 and Manuela Moreno would like to be deeper than the sea in the ranks of the in-depth ones. It is even endearing when Damilano says that «pluralism is a duty of the public service, as well as a right of the public». But at least it gives us a faint confidence in the future.
It is not easy to enclose the news on the field and the broader commentary in a story of about ten minutes, also because the new Rai3 does not yet have a precise individuality and, until recently, the program successfully fished between the more traditional and identifying audience than Rai3. Come on people, Nunzia De Girolamo is coming!
2023-09-13 19:33:53
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