Beppe Vessicchio leaves Sanremo: “In the last ten years it has been useless”
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“Sanremo has become ‘a television program: it is managed by TV, people talk about ratings and how much it is watched and that's it',” he said. “Treating it this way, it is logical that it becomes sensitive to what television has already made precious."
... it took him a while to realize it; it has been clear to me for at least twenty years