Sind die ARD und ZDF noch neutral?

Television or public broadcasting has always been subjectively undermining policy and system criticism is not to be expected – that is, if there is it, then the moderator or editor will soon be shy. The control bodies (Rundfunkrat der ARD and ZDF-Fernsehrat) consist mainly of representatives of CDU pre-field organisations such as kath. Church, Landwives, Community Day, City Day, European Union, Sales Associations, something in the way. Most of the seats are occupied by the prime ministers of the countries with their specially selected people, who certainly do not tell them what they do not want to hear or what they do. CDU-nah are (one looks at the state governments) and accordingly influence the program – they already have an interest to report CDU-nah or at least CDU-friendly. I wouldn’t even say that “left green” is being propagated. I also do not think that the SPD or the Greens are getting away well – there are not much positive news about both of them.

Many do not know that, but it explains parts of the program design and political undertones in separate series like the “Tatort” quite here and there.

However, the subject has always been worrying and had already in the 80s the stuff about the eternal Zankapfel (“Kohlfunk” was a buzzword), but in my opinion, with the chancellor Angela Merkels (the mainstream media) at the latest around 2015-2018, it is gradually drifting into the rail “CDU and Merkel well, all the other evil and bad vision” (you should be able to read between the lines) A very interesting topic, by the way: After the operation had failed before the Federal Constitutional Court in 1963, the ZDF – with which I personally can not only clarify the content better with “today” than with the ARD, its polittalks with the constant guest crowd and their daily show, because I have the ZDF as much freer or more. more politically neutral than the ARD.

The private broadcasters are far less politically undermined, especially since there are no such control bodies and no Proporz or not an educational order – you want to entertain people there and “entertainen”, not but teach them and not tell them who to choose and who not. In the past, there were also rumors here and there, I remember Leo Kirch and Helmut Kohl (Kirch was involved in Sat.1), but direct influence on the Sat.1 program did not exist here in my knowledge, that was more a private friendship that led to certain vulnerabilities.

I lack more than ever transmission formats like “Frontal” with Bodo H. Hauser and Ulrich Kienzle (“Noch Questions, Kienzle? Yes, Hauser!”), which can be trusted as a viewer and where the layman is also informed instead of guardianship.

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