Enrico Mentana-Lilli Gruber Clash: Company Silence Sparks Crisis at La7

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Already the arrival of Amadeus in Canale Nove has fueled thoughts and conspiracy theories. Especially since Enrico Mentana’s contract with La7 expires in December. It’s not that the journalist and broadcaster headed by Urbano Cairo are not working on the update, on the contrary. But the combination with the explosive Warner Bros. Discovery was immediately exciting. At this point we only needed the casus belli of the clash with Lilli Gruber who accused the director of the La7 news program of “instability” to go through the line a quarter of an hour late. Mentana did not hold it. Complete with a menacing comment (sorry not to call it that) during the evening edition of the news, highlighting the prospect of seeing a signal from the company: “Tomorrow we’ll see if there was something, or I’ll come to decisions.”

Mentana: “The silence of the company”

Enrico Mentana says in the city and the worldin front of the cameras. “Whoever followed us, Lilli Gruber had very unpleasant and offensive words, because I don’t like to pretend that I don’t know names and surnames. I have been sitting here for 14 years to make this announcement, I have never offended anyone, much less my colleagues who work on this network. I would appreciate equality in this regard and I would be grateful from the company I work for that there was no silence on this issue for 24 hours. Tomorrow evening we will see if there was anything, otherwise I will come to conclusions and direct consequences.”

I went out on Facebook

Lilli Gruber did not answer in her episode of Otto e Mezzo. But it is clear that the temperature inside Cairo Communications TV has risen well past the alarm level. This was evident, after all, already yesterday when Mentana delivered his jab at the journalist to Facebook, showing a graph with a curve (up) of the rating of his news program. «From one to nine percent in half an hour – he wrote -. This is the audience loop, completely similar to those of the previous days, of Tgla7 last night, marked by important events and continuously updated. However, that news program was inexplicably followed by an incredibly insulting judgment of me by the host of the next program, who also directly benefits from that steep curve every evening.” Then the reference to the managers of the network: «Judging that so far no one among the senior management of La7 has felt the need to distance themselves – he continued -. A small session, but to good show. At this point, I rightly distance myself from the rude and lazy.”

J’accuse live on TV

Then, hours later, Mentana brings things further, alive: «Last night we went a bit far with the news, it was a crucial, very important day: the prospect of peace in the East Middle, the tragedy of Casteldaccia, near Palermo. In addition, like every Monday, we had the studies and the appointment with Milena Gabanelli’s Data Room. Like every Monday, we went a little long, I apologize to the viewers. A little long, as it was established in advance and approved by those who manage this network.”

Will Urbano Cairo be able to solve the crisis with his group managers? The feeling is very sad from which Mentana does not leave at all, as someone who has nothing to lose. which does not automatically mean going elsewhere. But CNN is in on the discovery of Warner Bros. Rumors from previous weeks have revealed the desire to strengthen the group led in Italy by Alessandro Araimo. Mentana and floris are the two names that have been circulating. The director of Tg La7, however, denied ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​front. Now all eyes are on casus belli. And how it develops.

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