La Stampa against Repubblica on the premiership?
Different journalistic assessments between the two newspapers of the Gedi group – i.e. Repubblica and La Stampa – on the institutional reform announced by the Meloni government. Damato's Scratches
The opposition parties to the government, so divided among themselves and messed up even internally that they are not wrongly considered the main allies of Giorgia Meloni's "Cabinet", to call it with the biting irony of Davide Giacalone on Reason for the Way with which he prepared the budget law, zigzagging through an infinite number of drafts, they have finally found someone who is worse off than them. They are the newspapers, as the Prime Minister has also called them for some time: those with the greatest circulation and claims to represent or influence, as you prefer, public opinion which becomes the national electorate called to the polls every five years, barring advance payments.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC AND THE PRESS ON THE WAR IN GAZA AND BEYOND
Although actually owned by the same owner , a nephew of the late Gianni Agnelli who however does not even bear his surname, nor did he even think of having it added as some do by also assuming that of his mother, the two major Italian newspapers – La Repubblica and La Stampa – have divided themselves today in the reading, evaluation and so on of the emergencies in which we find ourselves.
For La Stampa , fresh from a change of direction, what causes fear is the "cry of the hostages" coming from the underground of Gaza, where the Hamas terrorists have selected three of them, all Israeli women, to order that executioner who Netanyahu, whose Star of David has been placed alongside Hitler's swastika, has already taken to the streets in Italy to stop reacting to the massacres of Jews on 7 October and instead to free all the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons to exchange them , as Hamas claims, with the two hundred-odd unfortunates captured in that infamous pogrom.
For la Repubblica – whose director Maurizio Molinari writes from or about Israel not so much or not only comments all rightly favorable to its right to exist, but essays of tens of thousands of words each to describe in the smallest details the dramatic conditions in which that State has been forced to live since its foundation – over the screams of the hostages held underground in Gaza, "hands on the Italian Republic" prevail as a reason for alarm, the real one and not the paper one founded in 1976 by Eugenio Scalfari. Hands that the Meloni government has decided to use with the constitutional reform of the so-called premiership, understood as the direct election of the Prime Minister, as if he were the mayor of Italy. “Hands on the Republic”, I repeat, with all that such a formula entails in the collective imagination. A tampering, in fact, similar if not worse than others attempted in vain in the past by Berlusconi first and then by Renzi.
Unlike Repubblica , the paper version, La Stampa however had a headline on the front page, like its brother Secolo XIX, that "Il Colle is ready for the green light". Which seems to contradict the representation of the newspaper directed by Molinari because Sergio Mattarella does not seem to me to be a president willing to have "his" Republic tampered with.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-stampa-contro-la-repubblica/ on Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:56:14 +0000.