Every independent journalist should be sad, this morning Enzo Biagi died in Milan. He was 87. Enzo Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and started his career as journalist in Bologna.
Biagi then disappeared from the TV screens a few months after the Berlusconi declarations in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the then-Prime Minister accused the popular journalist, together with fellow journalist Michele Santoro and showman/comedian Daniele Luttazzi, to have done a criminal use of television service.
Biagi’s defenders argue that a public service should provide pluralism, and that a country where the government forbids the opposing voices to be on air is a regime.
He was currently also a columnist for the daily Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, a newspaper he has been working for since the early 1970s.
