Relations with sources and the heavy accusations on public television: why the recent revelations about Ranucci become a political and media case.
Friends don’t: if you don’t feel like hanging out with a person, you don’t have to. Therefore it is assumed that the companions you surround yourself with are pleasant to you and, as there are no family ties, that you have chosen them for some characteristics ranging from friendliness, correctness, intelligence, etc. Having made this necessary premise, for days I have been wondering what caused it Siegfried Ranucci to attend Valter Lavitola to the point of calling him a true friend. And at the same time what is the reason that pushed him to maintain very cordial relations with Maria Rosaria Bocciathe femme fatale who led to the resignation of Gennaro Sangiuliano as Minister of Culture. Since yesterday, then, I have been wondering why an expert journalist like the host of Reports let himself go with Valentina Pelliccia to a series of very serious confidences, such as those he published yesterday The Truth. Obviously it is clear to me that sometimes, to cultivate a source, the boundaries that should delimit the relationship between journalist and interviewee are exceeded. And therefore the informant becomes something more than a subject aware of the facts and willing to reveal them if carefully solicited and cajoled. So the reporter goes a little further and does not limit himself to asking questions and recording answers, but invites the deep Throatsees her again on some private occasion, perhaps even becomes a sort of confessor, to advise her and direct her. However, if the relationship is reversed, and it is the source who collects the confessions, listens to confidential questions relating to the journalist’s profession or enters into the private life of the investigator, there is something profoundly anomalous, which makes us reflect on the linearity of one of the best-known TV hosts.
We already know about the relationship with Lavitola, a man who in recent years has linked his name to a series of very murky affairs, only to end up convicted of extortion to the detriment of Silvio Berlusconiaccused of having unduly received public money and also of having participated in the buying and selling of some parliamentarians. Can you become a brotherly friend of a guy like that? Obviously yes, but then we shouldn’t be surprised if we come across a disturbing incident, with Lavitola himself accused not only of having cultivated a plan to launch Ranucci’s candidacy in the political world, but also of being the instigator of a attack which should have increased the Report host’s prices, transforming him into a sort of martyr against the strong powers. It is possible to maintain relationships with a much discussed figure such as Boccia, accused of stalking against a minister and his wife as well as having falsified some of his university certificates? Of course it is possible to have relations with the lady accused of having scarred Sangiuliano’s skull, also because the aforementioned does not have the plague nor has a warning been issued against her. residence ban in the capital.
The ethical short circuit between informant and investigator
However, one cannot be surprised if someone questions the separation that must be maintained between chronicler and source. And what about the latest case involving the colleague, i.e. the audio sent to a journalist in which Ranucci speaks very badly about his company, i.e. the Rai? Attention, the host of Report does not criticize some choices of state TV, which is obviously permitted. No, the journalist says that the public networks are full of mafiosi and freemasons. I don’t know what induces a colleague who is not a novice to make serious accusations, but anyone who expresses heavy judgments about the television they work for should then be able to prove them and, above all, to mention names and surnames. The one sent to Valentina Pelliccia and forwarded by her to one of our journalists is not one private conversationbecause anyone who records audio and sends it to someone knows that those words are not intended to remain confidential, but can be reproduced and disseminated.
The accusations on public television and the need for clarity
I don’t know what relationships bind Ranucci to Pelliccia, whether a simple acquaintance or a friendship. I care little and I’m not even interested in the acquaintances of the colleague who in one of his books talks with a certain ease about intimate relationships with interns. His business. However, they are certainly not private matters accusations against Raitreated as a den of dubious characters, who maintain contacts with the mafia and freemasonry. I don’t know what elements Ranucci has to support all this, but it seems clear that the confidences to his friend are now one public question which it is urgent to get to the bottom of. Ranucci cannot throw a stone, or rather a boulder, and hide his hand. Now tell us who you’re angry with and if you don’t intend to do so, step aside: le shaded areas there are starting to be too many.
