Giorgia Meloni talks to Quarta Repubblica about the little space that would be dedicated to her in the Rai news, citing data shown on a sheet of paper as a sentence. No complaints from Nicola Porro, but those numbers are only real insofar as they are partial.
Giorgia Meloni she was a guest of Nicola Porro a Fourth Republic. A few days after her presence on Dritto e Rovescio, the Prime Minister returns to a Rete4 program for a one-to-one interview with the host in which she discusses different topics linked to her government action and the electoral campaign, finding herself essentially free to impose, unchallenged, its narrative.
Among the topics touched upon, censorship stands out: “When I wrote my book – Meloni tells Porro – they didn’t invite me to the Book Fair because I’m a politician, but then I find that Schlein, Renzi, Boldrini and Monti presented their book there. I published Scurati’s monologue on my social media because I know what censorship is.”
Meloni’s words on his presence in Rai
Porro asks her about it Rai and TeleMeloni issueas state TV was renamed under his government and about which the prime minister joked on several occasions: “I’m absolutely not interested in having a TeleMeloni. However, I am interested in the fact that there is finally a plural public service and that it is no longer Tele Pd. They don’t accept that I am a person who doesn’t follow their agenda. I understand their difficulty, because they bet on our failure and lost. Saviano is returning to Rai. Censorship is what others want to do“.
Beyond TeleMeloni there is Rete4, that minute from Del Debbio which says everything about the relationship between prime minister and TV
Meloni, to demonstrate the alleged inconsistency of TeleMeloni’s narrative, once again showed a piece of data which he had already spoken about in recent weeks, the one according to which it appears to be the prime minister least present on Tg1 in the first 14 months of government compared to its predecessors. Table on which Nicola Porro does not ask for specifics regarding the source.
Data on minutes in Rai news
Numbers, those indicated by Meloni, are real only in that they are partial. Demonstrating the inconsistency of the prime minister’s thesis is a study published in recent weeks by Pagella Politica, which analyzed the length of time of the presence of prime ministers in the Rai news programs by cross-referencing the data reported on institutional sites regarding both previous governments and the current one. . Well, comparing the first 14 months of the two Conte governments, that of Draghi and that of Meloni, it emerges that what Meloni cited on Rete 4 is the only data supporting his thesis, that is, that of “presence time”, i.e. the minutes in which the politician in question speaks directly. Quite another thing if you look at “total time”, or the minutes in which a politician is talked about overall. A parameter which instead sees Meloni clearly surpassing both Draghi and Conte. We read on Pagellapolitica:
The ranking changes if we look at Meloni’s “total time” at TG1, equal to an average of 152.2 minutes each month: this figure is higher than that recorded by Draghi (125.4) and that of Conte in his first experience in government (147.7). In his second government, Conte’s total time on TG1 was the highest of the four (205).
Given, that of Conte Bis, which however must be read through the filter of the pandemic crisis and Conte’s necessary presenteeism on the public service networks.
