A politically controversial nominee at the head of RAI

The appointment of Fabiano Fabiani, a centre-left press manager, at the head of RAI, Italy's public television station, provokes the anger of the centre-right, which is threatening to interrupt all dialogue with the government and asking President Napolitino to intervene. For the editorialist Giovanni Valentini, who stresses that RAI is the navel of Italian political life, political cleavages need to be overcome. "Television viewers, those who pay taxes and maybe even a subscription, do not wish to have a public service that is either left or right wing. They are rightly asking for an autonomous, independent and quality televison: less violent, less vulgar and less banal ... . Television that represents an alternative to private television, capable of resisting the invasion of advertising. Basically, a RAI that belongs to citizens, not to the government or to political parties".

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