Political interference has never been so strong on public television. I am talking about company management, advertising limits, and salaries. There … - Fabio Fazio

Today's television wants to do everything except tell the truth. It is television of the plausible, not of the real. And our programme with Roberto Saviano, Vieni via con me, aims to be an act of truth, a testimony of love. It is not a political programme, nor is it investigative journalism. It is a story of today's Italy.

I've been with Rai for twenty-seven years. I still have a year left on my contract. I remember the first time I went to Via Teulada: it was a legend becoming reality. I fear that the turning point came when the article was dropped, when ‘Rai’ became simply ‘Rai’: Rai and Mediaset. That was when people started saying ‘the company’, even though they knew that Rai could not, indeed should not, be just a company.

It's not that I'm cynical, I'm from Liguria. And Ligurians have a practical sense of things, there's no point pretending...