What stays unsaid and even gets minimized, is that this practice has been widely accepted from every single government so far, left or right. The practice is so

What stays unsaid and even gets minimized, is that this practice has been widely accepted from every single government so far, left or right. The practice is so common and rooted in the nature of RAI that it even has a name: lottizzazione, meaning that each political part gets a “lotto”, or their own patch of land to watch over like in a feudal system. The game here is to scream foul when the opposite side of the aisle does it, willfully ignoring that this practice itself is the problem. What has happened here, is that the right wing government didn’t play by the feudal rules and attacked Rai 3, which is the channel historically controlled by the left. What’s also unsaid in the article, is that Fabio Fazio and Luciana Littizzetto were not fired. They left their seven figures contracts for more remunerative ones at Discovery. Their departure is clearly a loss to RAI, as their program “che tempo che fa” was the highest earning slot of the weekend’s prime time of all three main national channels. That said, as an Italian living abroad, is so frustrating that the discussion on RAI never frees itself from political partisanship. To be clear, the Meloni government is a full-on disgrace, correctly mocked by the rest of the West as the picturesque neofascist failure it actually is. To cry foul on Rai’s current situation without even starting to criticize the feudal system of vested interests it became, though, is akin to say that a messed up system can be accepted as long as it perpetuates what our own political part roots for.