“Massimo Gramellini Reportedly Leaving Rai for La7: What It Means for Italian Television Journalism”

After Fabio Fazio e Lucia Announcedanother important signing of television journalism is about to leave Rai. Massimo Gramellini it should move to La7, even if after days of indiscretions the journalist does not confirm: “I haven’t decided yet”. If this were the case, Annunziata and Fazio’s Rai 3 itself would lose another prestigious programming star.

Already the speech delivered on May 27, as a greeting for the last episode of the season of his program The wordhad the characteristics of a farewell: “This program has become a small part of your life – Gramellini had said addressing the audience – I realize it when I meet one of you on the street. There couldn’t be a better compliment for us. But ‘public’ it also means public service. I want to thank Rai, which has been so mistreated. Beyond and above the appetite for power to which it has been the subject since its inception, this company is full of extraordinary workers, technicians, managers. I was lucky enough to work with many of them”.

The transition to La7 would be part of the natural order of things, the publisher is Urbaino Cairo, also the publisher of Rcs, a group in which Gramellini works as a columnist for the Corriere della Sera. As for the journalist’s commitment, there is talk of a program intended for Saturday evening, with characteristics similar to those of The word.

And again in the last episode of the Rai 3 programme, the journalist had added that “a great Rai executive from the past told me that the public service does not consist in having all the stories of reality in the same programme, but the possibility of choosing different programs that narrate reality in different ways. Each viewer, by paying the license fee, finances not only his own freedom of choice, but also that of others. It finances the newsstand where each of us can read the newspaper we prefer. We aim to be one of those newspapers. Not an arena in which we clash violently. We are more like a group of friends who meet on a Saturday night to tell each other about the week, exchange opinions, have a laugh and, if it happens, a cry. Before making one even now – Gramellini concluded – let’s say goodbye with a smile. Have a good summer”.