Giletti with ‘Non è l’Arena’ on La7 on Wednesday: “I leave on Sunday, I’m a masochist …”

Massimo Giletti starts tomorrow, leaving the familiar and friendly ‘territory’ of Sunday to move on to the unknown and hostile one of Wednesday, Massimo Giletti with ‘Non è l’Arena’ always in prime time on La7, produced by Fremantle, but with a new location in the weekly schedule. “It will be a new challenge and it is never easy to get back into the game”, is the awareness that the conductor demonstrates, presenting the new edition at Maxxi, the Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. “On Wednesday, the program will last an hour less than the previous Sunday location and with the same staff we will be able to work more in depth for our specific investigations, in the field,” he explains. Moving from the quality of the program to the quantity of the audience, Giletti personally places his bar at around 4.5%, hoping over time to reach a 5% share: “Even the choice made then to go on air on Sunday seemed crazy … – he remembers – Then, we had a 7% share. And I also remember that Floris passing from Rai3 to La7 with his program, while keeping Tuesday as the day of broadcasting, initially went from 13% to 4, 38% and then grow regularly. In this period – adds Giletti – all the talks are struggling, we will often clash with football matches, difficult to win on Wednesday when there will be Italy-Spain on Rai … We will see from here to December as it will go, I am a masochist to leave Sunday for Wednesday but also confident about the level that can be reached “. Giletti rejects the sender the accusation of making journalism or television ‘populist’:” If you really want to label me , then yes d I am a heretic, in the literal sense of the term or in search of the truth, which can then be reached or not; and in doing so, I like to give the floor to everyone, not to deny it to anyone or any opinion, hosting it and perhaps opposing it. And then: is it populism to enter the territory of the Casamonica in Rome or into Corleone? Is it populist to give rise to the case of releases and to prevent them, also obtaining illustrious resignations and removals? Is it populism to propose, as we will do tomorrow, the scandal of non-protective masks still in use in Italian hospitals? If this is populism, then I am a populist. But the truth is that we have done things that others have not done: these are real battles and real investigations, which show how the king is naked! “. As for politics,” they asked me to run for office in Puglia, then in Turin and they also sought as mayor of Rome, which tells of a weakness of the parties, in search of faces: Santoro, Gruber, Del Debbio, Badaloni, Marrazzo … so it is not strange that they are also looking for Giletti. Now no, in the future we will see “, the conductor of ‘Non è l’Arena’ leaves the door open. For the moment,” Draghi knows how to manage the boat in difficult times and I hope he does not go to the Quirinale but remains at the helm of the government until 2023 when the legislature expires “, is his wish. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)