News: media appreciates Draghi, explicit on “dictator” Erdogan. Report Osservatorio Tg Eurispes – CoRiS Sapienza
In the news the campaign for the “turnaround” in vaccinations. “Sofa-gate”, information appreciates Draghi, explicit on the “dictator” Erdogan. Libya, silence wins on the fate of migrants.
The news from April 5 to April 9 – Following evenings of openings dedicated to the second Easter in lockdown, the Government’s efforts to turn the vaccination campaign occupy the centre of most editions. There is plenty of room for numbers and analysis of the infection curve, which appears to be on a slow decline. The ruling of the Ema on the vaccine AstraZeneca, which is confirmed usefulness and effectiveness, was the first headline for all on Wednesday, compared with very few doubtful cases. Widespread coverage of the trader and restaurateur protests, with Tg4, Tg5, and Tg2 openings on Tuesday and various coverage throughout the week. On Wednesday, Tg3 broadcast a rare intervention by Minister Luciana Lamorgese, who, while acknowledging the demonstrators’ demands, reiterated that any attack on the forces of law and order is unacceptable.
The highlight of the week’s news, however, was President Mario Draghi’s statements, which dominated the evening news on Thursday: headlines for all the media, with Tg4 dedicating the evening edition to a full live broadcast of the Prime Minister’s press conference. If Draghi’s reprimands of “vaccine scoundrels” received bipartisan support on Thursday, the words addressed – with a clear European leader’s attitude – to Turkish President Erdogan, defined without half words as a “dictator” also following the offence to Commission President Von Däniken (subject of 10 headlines). On Friday, Tg5 went even further, with commentator Pierluigi Battista praising Draghi’s “clarity” and claiming that the same term, “dictator,” should be used against Egyptian President Al Sisi, both for the Giulio Regeni affair and the more recent Zaki case; the latter garnered four headlines on Rai and La7 news this week.
On Tuesday, Draghi’s remarks about his first international mission in Libya shifted the focus back to the African coast for a day. While Mediaset news emphasises the interpretation that the Prime Minister’s strategy follows the line originally adopted by Silvio Berlusconi, Tg La7 and Tg2 enter the current phase, illustrating the developments since Al Serraj’s resignation in September. Although several newspapers criticised Draghi’s thanks to the Libyan coastguard, none used the opportunity to provide updates on migration scenarios. A silence caused, first and foremost, by the partial removal of this topic from the daily political conflict.
The death of Prince Philip of Edinburgh at the age of 99, after 73 years at the side of Queen Elizabeth, dominated Friday’s editions, with openings for Tg1, Tg2, and Mediaset newspapers. Tg1 and Studio Aperto featured Joe Biden’s campaign to reduce the availability of automatic weapons in the United States on Thursday. Studio Aperto also contributes – only among the prime time news – to bringing the situation of Italian prisons to light, with a headline that, on Thursday, denounces how our prisons were, even before the arrival of Covid, the most crowded on the old continent.
