Lenita Airisto does not stroke Sarasvuo’s head as she recalls the collaboration of the 1990s in her new book.
Lenita Airisto was outraged when Jari Sarasvuo did not believe she could write a book on the Finnish economy. INKA SOVERI
The non-fiction writer, lecturer Lenita Airisto, 85, says in her recent book The Witch’s Good News – Defend Yourself! Fight! Win !, how Antti Piippo and Jari Sarasvuo suggested a joint book project for him in the early 1990s. The subject of the book would be Finland’s economic problems.
Airisto got excited. He had previously written columns on the subject for Today and Aamulehti, among others. Airisto was already beginning to outline the disposition of the book in his mind.
However, the meeting with Piipo and Sarasvuo was disappointing.
The men, according to Airisto, had no plan of any kind for the contents of the book. However, Sarasvuo wanted the book’s decision-making power, 75 percent of the copyright, and primarily a lawsuit in his own name. Airisto would have been left mainly with the role of managing secretary.
This did not liquefy.
– Of course, I quickly left the meeting and the next day I called Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. I had been contacted from there earlier with a book request. Now I was ready to write the book down to the disposition.
– Otava immediately approved my book design, a cost agreement and a book were made (Will to win) was published in 1994.
The men took revenge in the Good, Evil and Ugly program, to which Airisto was invited as a guest after the book was published.
Sarasvuo banged live:
– We have received three anonymous phone calls today because we wanted to publicly reveal Lenita’s real face. We were told with certainty that you did not write the Book of Victory yourself, but it was written by Max Jakobson.
Airisto was outraged by the allegation.
– I asked Sarasvuo if he had checked in accordance with the correct journalistic practice, called Jakobson himself, who would have proved the allegations to be false? It wasn’t because such journalistic practices didn’t apply to Sarasvuo, Airisto says in a recent book.
– Jari Sarasvuo got hot, let go of all his complex and loaded the table with arguments as to why I could not write such a book. According to him, I have missed and made my “career” in custom education and now I want to achieve, that is, with sticks, credibility, and so on, he continues.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, hosted by Jari Sarasvuo, was a spectator magnet for the 1990s. Jukka Uotila
This was all female hatred, according to Airisto. The man could not bear to be overtaken by a woman in a book project, but tried to avenge by public embarrassment.
– Afterwards, of course, I discussed the situation with Max Jakobson and we said: The false claim and its perpetrators were ridiculous and pathetic amateurs, not real journalism professionals, Airisto sums up in a recent book.
Lenita Airisto: The Good News of a Witch – Defend Yourself! Fight! Win! (Bazar) will be published on March 7.