Ranucci, 'Report colleagues could have sent a message a little earlier'

Maybe they could have sent a message a little earlier, even in a strong way. Thus Sigfrido Ranucci, on the sidelines of his show "Diary of a trapeze artist" at the Duse theater in Bologna, commented on the note with which the Report team today declared that they had never distrusted him or asked for his removal. The position taken comes the day after the order of the Court of Rome which rejected the journalist's request for reinstatement as leader of the programme.

Ranucci underlined how the journalists he led until a few months ago took a stand "today because they realized that in the order the judge had rejected the appeal, motivating it by drawing on a series of statements from friends. Because I didn't just have Lavitola as a friend, I also had Santoro who said that I should abandon Report, Formigli, even Saviano. I must say, however, that they were all statements doped by one fact - he continued -: there were 3,500 false articles that influenced people's opinions, the so-called media noise, which was also the basis of the judge's decision".

For Ranucci "the concept that a journalist can be removed based on media noise has passed, it doesn't matter whether it is true or false, I believe this is not right", he concluded.