Pif, an emerging figure in entertainment and new Italian journalism, meets and interviews Loris Mazzetti, Enzo Biagi's historic right-hand man and director. The meeting focuses on Biagi's history as an entertainer journalist, not only a reporter, but a full-fledged television author, creator of formats, perhaps the first Italian inventor of infotainment. Enzo Biagi, inspirer of many programs that came after him, inventor of a popular TV that always respected the intelligence of the viewer and the rigor of the news without giving up the construction of a television show. The interview is enriched by clips from television, from the first television rotogravure to the historic interview with Gaddafi, from the scoop of Calvi's suitcase in Spot to the infamous interview with Roberto Benigni. The meeting filmed by the Programming Structure of the RAI headquarters in Trento, will be broadcast in the Regional Section: Terra di Montagna, broadcast on Sunday 26 June at 10.00 am, on Rai 3 with regional broadcasting.
Loris Mazzetti, Italian journalist, writer and teacher, famous for being a historic collaborator of Enzo Biagi. He has been the director of numerous television programs, such as Il Fatto di Enzo Biagi, of sporting events broadcast on public TV such as the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He is currently the manager of Rai 3 in Milan and responsible for various programs such as Che tempo che fa (where he has been invited several times), of venire via con me, as well as a professor of theory and technique of television language at the University of Modena. In March 2010 he was suspended for ten days by Rai for having published an article in Il Fatto Quotidiano, in which he denounced the loss of income resulting from not broadcasting certain programs such as Ballarò and AnnoZero during the election campaign, which is why he participated in the Raiperunanotte broadcast-event directed by Michele Santoro by standing behind a barbed wire wall for the entire duration of the program, symbolizing the fact that his freedom of speech would be taken away.
In 1998 Pif worked as assistant director to Franco Zeffirelli in the film Un tea con Mussolini and the following year in I cento passi by Marco Tullio Giordana. In 2000 he took part in the course to become a television writer, organized by Mediaset. He was chosen for the program Le Iene, first as an author and then as a hyena. It is also thanks to the experience gained at Le Iene that he proposed the program The Witness to MTV.
