Mentana-Gruber: “Maintain respect for each other and the company”.

Ultimatum a La7 Enrico Mentana he launched it yesterday during the evening edition of the La7 news: “I would like it if there wasn’t the silence in the company that has accompanied the story for 24 hours. Tomorrow (yesterday, ed.) we will see if there was anything, otherwise I will draw conclusions.” The story is the argument we had the previous day with Lilli Gruberwhen the presenter of Otto e mezzo had accused him of “incontinence” for having passed her through the line a quarter of an hour late.

And this morning a press release arrived from the company: “La7 is achieving excellent results thanks to everyone’s contribution and valuable team work. For this reason it is essential that mutual respect is never lacking. Just as it is essential that there is no lack of respect towards a company that has among its founding values ​​freedom of expression and the responsible autonomy of its hosts and journalists – we read in the note from the broadcaster Urban Cairo – A company that has been able to maintain and expand the level of employment over the years, recover economically, and become a point of reference of excellence in the Italian information and cultural panorama. For this reason it must always be preserved and protected by all of us, who work on it every day with passion and pride”.

Mentana’s response came via social media where he posted the news from Ansa with the company press release released a few minutes earlier: “I subscribe”, the comment of the news director therefore saying he agreed with its content.

On Facebook yesterday the news director had published a graph showing the level of appreciation reserved by the public for his news program (“From one to nine percent in half an hour”), accompanied by a message that sounded much like a Goodbye. “However, that news program was unpredictably followed by a grossly contemptuous judgment towards me by the person hosting the next programme, who is also the direct beneficiary of that upward curve every evening”, the dig at Gruber. “A judgment from which so far no one among the La7 leaders has felt the need to distance themselves”. After a few hours the ultimatum to the company live. And this morning the note from the broadcaster. Now?