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 Olive Tree coalition.

[2] Biagi disappeared from TV screens a few months after Berlusconi's declarations in Sofia named also editto bulgaro, where the then-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, and that a country where government prevents opposing ideas from being voiced on air is a regime.

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.

1953 – Riccione Prize for "Giulia viene da lontano"[4] 1971 – Premio Bancarella for "Testimone del tempo"[5] 1979 – Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism 1979 – Gold Medal of Civic Merit from the Municipality of Milan 1993 – Honorary President of the Jury for the "È giornalismo" Prize 2003 – Honorary Citizenship of Fucecchio, the birthplace of Indro Montanelli 2004 – Award for the program "Il Fatto" as the best journalistic program of the first fifty years of Rai[5] 2005 – Ilaria Alpi Television Journalism Career Award[6]