Gad Eitan Lerner ( he, גד איתן לרנר; born 7 December 1954) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter.
Career
In 2000, Lerner served as director of news broadcasts
TG1 for
Rai 1 but resigned after a selection of pornographic footage was mistakenly aired on prime time during his news broadcast on TG1. Along with his resignation, he revealed that a politician from
National Alliance,
Mario Landolfi, who also was the president of the
parliamentary commission of vigilance regarding the public TV broadcasting service, asked him to favour an acquaintance of his in the TG1.
In 2001, Lerner participated in the foundation of new Italian TV channel
La7, where he was the first director of the news program ''
TG La7'' for a short time and after he hosted a weekly talk show ''
L'Infedele
''L'Infedele'' was an Italian television talk show hosted by the Italian journalist Gad Lerner and broadcast on La7
La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Until 2013 it was a pay-per-view channel own ...
'' until 2012. He left
La7 in 2013 and has since curated and developed other TV programs, including the talk show ''
Fischia il vento
"Fischia il vento" is an Italian popular song whose text was written in late 1943, at the inception of the Resistenza. Along with '' Bella ciao'' it is one of the most famous songs celebrating the Italian resistance.
History
The song was broadc ...
'' for
La EFFE and a documentary series ''
Operai'' for
RAI 3.
In 2010, he was denied visa to
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, even after his friend and journalist Alix Van Buren defended him: "He often defends the Muslim communities in Italy and their right to have mosques ... he is an independent
Jew, who doesn't belong to any lobby ..., he signed a petition written by a group of
European Jews which opposes some of the politics of Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu."
In 2007, Lerner was one of the founding members of the
Democratic Party (PD) in Italy. In 2017, Lerner resigned from the PD in protest against the party's politics over immigration.
Selected bibliography
* 2005: ''Tu sei un bastardo. Contro l'abuso delle identità'' ().
* 2009: ''Scintille. Una storia di anime vagabonde'' ().
* 2017: ''Concetta. Una storia operaia'' ().
References
External links
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1954 births
Living people
Italian communists
Writers from Beirut
Writers from Turin
Jewish Italian writers
Jewish socialists
Italian people of Lebanese-Jewish descent
Italian newspaper editors
Italian male journalists
Lebanese emigrants to Italy
20th-century Italian Jews