A great desire to wear the label “TeleMeloni” and use all their anti-government zeal. And so we end up seeing the speck in the eyes of others and not the beam that blinds our own. And that is exactly what is happening with Repubblica and La Stampa, which have been engaged in an objective evaluation of the audience numbers of Italian public and private television for months. Hence the uncompromising challenge between the Gedi Group and UniRai, the new union of public journalists. A journalistic report was dedicated to all of this, broadcast on January 8th on the 8 p.m. edition of Tg5.
Tg5 has therefore announced the actual sales figures of the newspapers at the kiosk. Let's see what they are in detail. In the first 9 months of 2023, a total of 1.43 million copies were sold per day, a decrease of 8.8% on an annual basis and 32.8% compared to the same period in 2019. As if that were not enough, in October 2022 and October 2023, among other things, the number of copies of Repubblica sold on newsstands increased from 80,121 to 70,834, a loss of 12% in readers. During the same period, La Stampa suffered a net loss of up to 14% of readers, from 65,000 to 56,000. It's better to see the splinter in other people's eyes…