Fabio Fazio, who with Cecilia Sala and Pope Francis gave a lesson to Rai

Fabio Fazio he managed to create a television container that wasn’t there before, laying the foundations for a living room where it is possible to talk about politics, current affairs and culture with particular attention to care and respect. As the years passed, Fazio and his What’s the weather like? they managed, in fact, to build credibility capable of getting a yes from almost everyone: to heads of state, Hollywood stars, the most renowned writers – it’s a real shame that Italy doesn’t have a literary program in prime time like countries like France – and to the most talked about names of the moment. It is no coincidence that in the episode broadcast on Nove on 19 January, What’s the weather like? could count on two big guns like Cecilia Hall, on his first television appearance after release from detention in Tehran, and Pope Franciswhich he chose himself What’s the weather like? – where else, otherwise? – to preview the first autobiography written by a pontiff in history.

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Using different registers suited to your interlocutor, Fabio Fazio managed to find extraordinary measure in both matches, both when she tried to extract details from Sala about the 21 days in which she thought she would not get out alive from the Iranian maximum security prison in which she was locked up, and from the Pope, who has chosen to question issues of pressing relevance such as the role of women in the Church today, the possible value of migrants on the Italian GDP and the serious problem of abuse in parishes and communities. Thanks to his experience and craft, Fazio brought out, with grace and skill, the fundamental characters of his two guests: the discretion of Cecilia Salawho almost reluctantly recounted the hardest moments of his imprisonment, adding on several occasions that he wanted to soon start telling the stories of others instead of insisting on his own, and the clarity of the Popewho never held back, realizing any doubts expressed by the host.

Fabio Fazio who with Cecilia Sala and Pope Francis gave a lesson to Rai

The result was a TV worthy of public service which allowed Fabio Fazio to demonstrate to Rai the great opportunities he could have held in his hands and which he missed. It is a real shame, in fact, that Rai, losing What’s the weather like?has failed to build any valid alternative to be able to host personalities such as the Pope or an Italian journalist freed from prison: that slot there was occupied by Fabio Fazio, and the fact that he was allowed to leave it free was a great loss for Rai which inevitably favored Discovery, which is becoming increasingly central in the Italian dissemination and information landscape. We don’t know if there will be a new one What’s the weather like? on our television, but it would certainly be appropriate to recognize in Fazio what is Fazio’s, ceasing to demonize him at all costs to recognize the invaluable contribution that gives thanks to his program and his style.

Source: Vanity Fair

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