Roberto Morrione worked for the RAI, the Italian state television, for over forty years, most recently as director of RaiNews 24 (from 1999 to 2006). He was in Palermo as a young reported when the mafia bombs first created their carnage in the 70′s; he learnt his professions from reporters of the calibre of Enzo Biagi and Mauro de Mauro (assassinated by the Mafia). He was the journalist who put part of Paolo Borsellino’s final interview on the air, in which the judge spoke of the connections between Forza Italia creator Marcello dell’Utri, the Mafia and drug-dealing. No prime time channel would broadcast that interview.
Morrione was publicly accused by right-wing politian Paolo Guzzanti of having manipulated the video and he has just won a libel against this Forza Italia politician.In this lesson Morrione describes the ups and downs of relationships between mafia, politics and journalism over the past decades.DOWNLOAD MP3 >>