A Rigged Crossword, a Ruined Career, and What Italy Chose to Ignore

How a rigged crossword puzzle on Non è la Rai exposed the cynical machinery of 1990s Italian television, and derailed the career of the woman who called it out.

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If you grew up in Italy in the early 1990s, you remember the moment. Not because you fully understood what was happening, but because the adults in the ro…