Manifesto for a “new public service broadcaster”
(19 April 2024) (Ed. CH-S) The public broadcasters ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio are in turmoil and criticism of the media giants, which are compulsorily financed by the public, is growing louder. Viewers and listeners are deserting them and turning to other media.
Is it so much different at Swiss Radio and Television SRF? Here, too, we only hear “filtered” and framed information and standardised opinions on the key issues of our time. “Nudging” is intended to coax us as media consumers towards the thinking desired by the media makers. In Germany, a group of employees of these media companies is now calling for a “new public service broadcasting”.