Editing Enzo Biagi (section)

==Life and career==
Biagi was born in [[Lizzano in Belvedere]], and began his career as a journalist in [[Bologna]]. In 1952, he worked on the screenplay of the historical film ''[[Red Shirts (film)|Red Shirts]]''. In 1953, he became the [[editor-in-chief]] of ''[[Epoca (magazine)|Epoca]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA289|access-date=14 April 2015|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75876-0|page=289}}</ref>

Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which were the 1979 [[Saint Vincent prize]] and the 1985 [[Ischia International Journalism Award]]. In 1987, he won the [[Premio Bancarella]] for his book ''Il boss è solo'', interviewing former [[Sicilian Mafia]] boss [[Tommaso Buscetta]], who had turned ''[[pentito]]'' (state witness). He worked on the Italian national TV channel [[Rai 1]] until 2001.

On 9 May 2001, just two days before the general elections in Italy, during his daily [[prime time]] 10-minute TV show ''Il Fatto'', broadcast on Rai Uno, Biagi interviewed the popular actor and director [[Roberto Benigni]], who gave a hilarious talk about [[Silvio Berlusconi]] declaring his preference for the other candidate, [[Francesco Rutelli]] from the [[The Olive Tree (Italy)|Olive Tree]] coalition.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/saticinque/benigni/benigni.html|author=La Repubblica|author-link=La Repubblica|title=Benigni, show tv anti Cavaliere|language=it}}</ref>

=== Bulgarian Edict ===
Biagi disappeared from TV screens a few months after [[Editto bulgaro|Berlusconi's declarations]] in [[Sofia]] named also [[editto bulgaro]], where the then-[[Prime Minister of Italy|Prime Minister]] accused the popular journalist, together with fellow journalist [[Michele Santoro]] and showman/comedian [[Daniele Luttazzi]], of having made criminal use of the public television service.

Biagi's defenders argue that a public service should provide [[Pluralism (political philosophy)|pluralism]], and that a country where government [[Censorship|prevents]] opposing ideas from being voiced on air is a [[regime]].

The issue of Berlusconi's motives for entering politics in the first place emerged in an interview that he gave with Biagi and [[Indro Montanelli]], stating "If I don't enter politics, I will go to jail and become bankrupt".<ref>{{cite book|first=Alexander |last=Stille|title=The Sack of Rome|url=https://archive.org/details/sackofromehowbea00stil |url-access=registration |publisher= Penguin|location=New York|year=2006|isbn=978-1-59420-053-3 }}</ref>

=== Biagi's return on TV and death ===
On 22 April 2007, 86-year-old Enzo Biagi made his TV comeback on the [[RAI]] with ''RT - Rotocalco Televisivo'', a current affairs show which is broadcast on [[Rai 3]]. At the opening of the show, he declared:
{{blockquote|Good evening, sorry if I am a bit emotional, maybe it is visible. There has been a technical problem, and the break has lasted five years.}}

Until shortly before his death he was also a columnist for the daily Italian newspaper ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'', which he had worked for since the early 1970s.