Masi, the director general of the RAI, was speaking the truth: I have made no mistake and Berlusconi is with me. The psycho-dwarf has two coinciding reasons to destroy the RAI. The first is to avoid the bankruptcy of Mediaset, the second is to keep sitting on the President of the Council’s armchair. Information has made him rich and unpunished. Masi is not making a single mistake. This year, the RAI will lose between 50 and 70 million Euro. In 2010, it is forecast to lose twice that. The programmes make you crap, apart from the usual exceptions. Advertising has gone down by 20%, twice the proportion for Mediaset. Sky has been put outside the door for digital terrestrial with a loss of 50 million Euro. Minchiolini’s TV news programmes are an instigation to commit crime. Minchiolini would make a fortune for the amusement parks with 50 Euro a go for a kick up the backside. I’m sure there are those who would give the whole of their “thirteenth month” salary. The RAI is in a pre-bankruptcy state and Masi is the liquidator appointed by the competitor. The RAI deserves to go under. There’s no doubt. It needs help to avoid a long agony. However, together with the RAI, Mediaset needs closing down too. To do that there’s no need for a law on the conflict of interests or to commit Tar Head to a mental hospital. And not even to boycott the companies that advertise on his networks. It’s simply that a law needs altering. The 1999 D'Alema law (page 32, law 488, art.27 comma 9) that gifts the national TV frequencies to Mediaset. Berlusconi is paying just one per cent of his turnover for the government concessions. Anyone can become a magnate with D'Alema. It’s as though we were to hand over our apartment to an agency in exchange for one per cent of the rent. D'Alema put forward as the EU Minister of Foreign Affairs by Berlusconi is the coronation of a long love story.
If Mediaset were to pay what is right to the State, a figure between 20 and 30%, it would go bust. The D'Alema law has to be overturned, the RAI given back to the citizens without advertising and without political appointments. Last year Mediaset had a profit of 692 million Euro, not much for a company owned by one who is a State concessionary that governs the State and even the State TV. Anyone would be able to do better, no one could be worse. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.