As if there was some sort of curse. Whenever the times envisage a possible, radical intervention by Rai reform something eventually blows it all away.
And so is our decision-making and scrapping prime minister, after having rightly argued that Rai is too important a cultural company to be changed with the Gasparri law, beats a retreat and relies on the reviled legislation for renew top management. It is difficult to understand the meaning of such a decision. There was no compelling urgency. The outgoing BoD has already planned the autumn season and could easily have managed an extension aimed at allowing for an in-depth debate on the meaning and significance of the Public Service.
Moreover. Among the many announced reforms, that of Rai would have made it possible to truly change the country with low costs and a positive final balance. Forcing everyone to reflect on the meaning of our being together and on how to tell it would have triggered a virtuous process that could have given a soul back to a community that has lost it, truly changing its "direction". But just when he had this card in his hands to play, there was a change of course, decisive and not very commendable. Why? Venturing into the maze of the reconstructions of the behind the scenes makes no sense at all. Tactical motivations can be found in spades and each one is in some way consistent with a non-derogable necessity. The fact remains that certain opportunities never recur? with the same force and the same potential for change. Reflecting on the Rai reform today? it would have forced everyone, absolutely everyone, to think about the actual change in the country on the eve, moreover, of the expiry of the convention that assigns Viale Mazzini the task of exercising the public radio and television service. Now we will arrive at the appointment empty-handed, with a Rai unable to play a central, driving role and therefore subject to any type of aggression concerned. Unless this is precisely the goal of the Premier as well as somehow overshadowed in some fleeting "step" to the "Leopolda". But reducing the perimeter of Rai can at most protect some private subjects, more or less friendly, certainly not make the country change direction.
