(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 07 - The grip of Covid is loosened, news is back at the center of the attention of the news public in the first six months of 2021: this is what emerges from the analysis of the Tg Eurispes - CoRiS Sapienza Observatory on relative data semester of the year, the period in which the primetime audience stabilized, with a slow but progressive return to the levels of public of the seasons preceding the explosion of the pandemic.
If in the spring months the average audience of the evening news remained higher than in previous years, with a daily difference of about 2 million viewers compared to spring 2019, last June and the end of the curfew there was a marked drop in the audience. , which are aligned with the typical values of past late spring seasons. The positions are essentially stable, except for a slight gain for Tg1 compared to the main competitors of the 20.
With the lowering of the voltage - again Eurispes notes - the news trend begins to resurface in April, to return to represent the "killerapplication" between May and June "of prime time. Dramatic events the massacre of the Mottarone and the case of Saman Abbas have returned to polarizepublic attention.
Taking the month of June as an example, 23.3% of the repertoire constitutes a sort of "black island", fueled by the anniversary of the Ustica massacre and by the debate on Mottarone. The "continent" that opposes it consists of four regions, and that relating to the narrative of the virus, which covers 23.7% of the repertoire, has the most defined borders ("Delta", "Vaccino", "Contagion"); there are few overlapping areas with the "international" cluster («Biden», «Vertice», «Calcio»), which reaches 22.2% also including part of the discussion on Europeans. The clusters relating to politics are much more interrelated, which reclaims its spaces by articulating its narrative in a more "party" dimension ("Center-right", "Salvini", "Berlusconi"), and a more "socio-economic" dimension ("Zan ","Licensors", "Syndicates"), for a total of 30.7% of the repertoire. (HANDLE).