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Journalism has many flaws.

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Journalists are either
individualist and selfish,

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or, on the other hand,
they go with the crowd,

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they therefore follow
common ideas,

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or a common way of doing this job.

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I believe that some competition
is necessary.

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With new technologies,
with social networks,

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this job has become
extremely competitive,

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it hadn't happened since
when I started,

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now we have
user-generated content,

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users themselves
produce pieces of news.

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There is a global competition,
there is no other sector...

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...in which consumers compete
so much with producers,

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it simply does not exist.

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There's no sector that has the same
ability to reinvent itself

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as journalism,

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we don't have a schedule,

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facts determine our schedule.

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Each day is different
from the other,

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and facts often
take us totally by surprise,

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either because we are not experts,
or we are not moved enough,

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or we are not curious enough.

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Sometimes we do not want
to accept those facts,

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because they go against
our own opinions,

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we project ourselves onto
what we have to describe.

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And this is a terrible mistake.

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We should be
more competitive,

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and, most of all, we should look
at events in a different way,

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we should look at them from
uncommon points of view.

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thinking that after all
we do not hold the truth,

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many colleagues think they have
the truth in their pockets,

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they consider themselves
as demigods,

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as interpreters, or actors,
of the scene they are describing.

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Journalists are not actors,
they are witnesses.

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Such a will, or ability, humility,
of recognizing one's mistakes...

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...is not among
a journalist's qualities.

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Journalists are individualist,

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they think that everything
revolves around them,

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their vanity
is often uncontrollable,

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their sense of power
is absolutely enthralling.

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I believe that if reporters
had the humility they should have,

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they would be
more useful to society,

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and also nicer,

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unfortunately we are
rather unpleasant.

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A newspaper is good
if its accounts are in order.

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If the accounts are bad,
its quality will also deteriorate.

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Saying No is part of
a journalist's professional life,

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because a journalist
is often asked...

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...to give up its role,

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because unfortunately society
thinks our job has no rules,

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that sometimes such rules
disappear because of friendships.

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I never asked my friends
who are entrepreneurs…

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...not to do their jobs,
or people doing other jobs.

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So it was unacceptable that
they asked me not to do mine.

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In Italy, writing your memoirs
is considered as a vanity sin.

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In other countries, the memoir
genre is almost a civil duty,

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you write an account of what
you have done in your life.

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Admitting your mistakes,
your faults,

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at the end of your life,
or of a chapter of your life,

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is an act of responsibility,

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it's part of the legacy that
we pass on to other people.

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Legacy is not what
we pass on to our children,

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it's not the material will
that we pass on to them,

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it doesn't mean handing over
a propriety, money.

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I think legacy is the mark...

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...that we leave on society,
being it big or small.