The votes fall but interviews increase: Matteo Renzi remains the protagonist of the media. Sympathy, controversy and avalanche quotes, even without news to say.
There is a mystery that I can’t find the explanation. The more the consensus of Matteo Renzi fall, the more the articles dedicated to him in the newspapers increase. Interviews, declarations, advances: every day has his sentence, with his face and name of the former Prime Minister in plain sight. Pier Silvio Berlusconi says that he considers him “sympathetic, intelligent and good, but has lost electoral credibility and political weight”. The founder of Italy Viva takes the ball and announces to leave Mondadori, with whom he published his last literary effort, due to the attack on his person by the publisher. Obviously nobody points out that saying someone who is good and intelligent does not seem a low blow, nor that the loss of credibility and political weight is a fact certified by the polls, in which his party is credited to 2 percent, to the point that Italy lives was renamed Italy dead. The newspapers report without wording and without laughing the sprolquio of the former premier, who on social media straples the aggression by Pier Silvio and announces that he will not be walked but will continue his battle in defense of the institutions.
And if one morning, after reading the newspapers, he takes it with Berlusconi son, accusing him, among other things, of having obscured him on the Mediaset networks (where, since the beginning of the year, he appeared in the talk shows about ten times even with single interviews that usually reserve for the big names and had about 150 quotes in news and various broadcasts), the next day he puts Alessandro Giuli, guilty of having felt censored by Corriere della Sera for having responded to an editorial of the newspaper in via Solferino. Obviously Renzi in the dispute between the owner of culture and the newspaper has nothing to do with it, but he, in order to conquer a quote, slips the same, with a declaration of solidarity with the editorial staff and an attack on the minister. Since, with an amendment to the maneuver presented by Fratelli d’Italia, it has been proposed to prohibit members of the government and parliamentarians from receiving gross compensation above 50 thousand euros from foreign subjects, Renzi, whose incomes arrive largely from foreign countries, is unleashed and does not miss an opportunity to attack Meloni, Tajani, Salvini, Lollobrigida, Giuli in a Rossinian crescendo from time to time. Interviews, interventions, declarations and participations in Talk Show and Podcast are punctiliously reported on his site and on the social networks that he himself feeds bulimically. So we can know that in the first 15 days of July he granted two interviews to the Presstwo a Republicone al XIX century. The best, however, the former premier gave him in May, when he invaded all daily publications from north to south, passing from the Messaggero Veneto to L ‘OTHERVOCE-Southern newspaperwith a couple of interviews at Sheettwo al Courierone ad Happenone al Messenger of Rome, another al Day of Milan and while there was, in the cliffs of time, has also granted one to Milan Finance. An invasion with unified newspapers that has no precedents, but above all that has no explanation, given that Renzi almost never has anything new to say. Why do you have a lot of space for one who has 2 percent? It would be as if almost every day, in Great Britain, the newspapers of the United Kingdom interviewed Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer. Yes, in agreement, the two co-elements of the Green Party of England and Wales have never been premier, but in the last elections their party took the triple of what was brought home by the former mayor of Florence.
Therefore, the question reformulates: why as the votes of Italy Viva drop the interviews with its (AF) founder increase? The reply I gave myself is twofold. First I thought that the bomb – this is her nickname as a boy – shoots them so big that the newspapers are forced to deal with him. Every day the enemies and a conspiracy invent (remember the ridiculous scandal of the professor who immortalized him and a man of the secret services in a motorway pitch during Covid? Instead of saying what he did in conversation with a spy, Renzi mounted such a little little tram that the poor man was forced to justify himself as if he were forbidden the founder of Italy Viva). His specialization lately are the journalists, of whom – despite the fact that in the past the relationships were not idyllic, to the point that Sallusti reported a kind telephone threat (“I break your legs”) – now he takes the defenses, perhaps hoping for the umpteenth interview: and Giuli and Paragon cases seem on that road, with the latter defined as the “Italian Watergate”. Boom. Are you wondering what is the second reason that I have given myself for the multitude of interviews? It is the most banal answer: the newspapers are so short of ideas and topics that even an interview with Renzi helps to fill the white pages.
PS. But after the farewell to Mondadori in controversy with Pier Silvio, will Renzi also desert mediaset broadcasts, giving up dozens of TV and radio interviews? Ah, know.
