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Enzo Biagi R.I.P. (1 Comment)
enzo biagi in 1976

Credo che la libertà sia uno dei beni che gli uomini dovrebbero apprezzare di più.
La libertà è come la poesia: non deve avere aggettivi, è libertà.

from Wikipedia:

On May 9, 2001, just two days before the general elections in Italy, during his daily prime time 10-minute TV show Il Fatto, broadcast on Rai Uno, Biagi interviewed the popular actor and director Roberto Benigni, who gave a hilarious talk about Silvio Berlusconi declareing his preference for the other candidate, Francesco Rutelli from the Olive Tree coalition.[1]

Biagi disappeared from TV screens a few months after Berlusconi’s declarations in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the then-Prime Minister accused the popular journalist, together with fellow journalist Michele Santoro and showman/comedian Daniele Luttazzi, of having made criminal use of the public television service.

Biagi’s defenders argue that a public service should provide pluralism, and that a country where government prevents opposing ideas from being voiced on air is a régime.

The issue of Berlusconi’s motives for entering politics in the first place emerged in an interview that he gave with Biagi and Indro Montanelli, stating “If I don’t enter politics, I will go to jail and become bankrupt.”[2]

On April 22, 2007, 86-year-old Enzo Biagi made his TV comeback on the RAI with RT – Rotocalco Televisivo, a current affairs show which is broadcast on Raitre. At the opening of the show, he declared:

Good evening, sorry if I am a bit emotional, maybe it is visible. There has been a technical problem, and the break has lasted five years.

One Response to “Enzo Biagi R.I.P.”

    1. BzyBee November 14th, 2007 at 3:47 AM

      ONLY IN ITALY!! che rizata!!

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