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The ARD and ZDF are in vigorous debate again, but a current study offers fresh criticism of the “Anne Will” to “Maischberger” conversations. The authors make a dubious judgment.
Sedan – The political talk show season officially reopened on Sunday. With “Anne Will” * The public service flagship has also returned to television screens. Just in time, the criticism is now strong: a current one study has been a member of the “big 4” in ARD and ZDF analyzed.
The remarkable result: with Will, but also “tough but fair”, “Maischberger” * and “Maybrit Illner” * the guests do not “sufficiently” reflect the political reality of the country. At the end of 2019, another assessment had revealed a clear imbalance.
“Anne Will” and company: “Promptly formulated”: study offers new criticism of ARD and ZDF political talks
The document was produced by the liberal left-wing Berlin think tank “The Progressive Center”who has already worked with various party foundations and federal ministries. The verdict on the Talk Show Reality on German television it’s not exactly positive.
You can read from the newspaper “The Talk Show Society”, among other things, that NGOs, consumer advocates, local and European politicians or East German politicians with socialization they tend to be underrepresented. too scientific barely had a voice for a long time, according to the survey, only at the beginning of Crown-Krise his participation in the big talk shows increased. “To put it bluntly, the politics of the capital meets the journalism of the capital on talk shows,” they write. Authors Paulina Fröhlich and Johannes Hillje.
1.) On the “Big 4” talk shows (Anne Will, tough but fair, Maischberger, Maybrit Illner), 65.5 percent of all guests come from politics and journalism; 8.8 percent of science; 6.4 percent economy; 2.8 percent cultivation; 2.7 percent of organized civil society (2/8) pic.twitter.com/TVOdlHEEWs – Johannes Hillje (@JHillje) September 8, 2020
“The presence on talk shows of organizations that enjoy particularly high levels of trust in society (eg consumer protection, NGOs, trade unions) is particularly low,” says the Study conclusion. “At the same time, the reality of the multilevel political system is not adequately represented, which could particularly affect the appreciation of the local and European levels.”
Talk shows from “Anne Will” to “Maischberger” in criticism: education and social problems hardly have a voice
The authors have also provided some specific figures. So are the surveys eight out of ten guests from the business sector Representative of Entrepreneurial side. 70 percent of participating politicians were active at the federal level.
According to the study, they hardly had a voice in the pre-Corona period. scientific (8.9 percent of the participants). too economy (6.4 percent), Culture (2.8 percent) and organized civil society (2.7 percent) were rarely represented. The proportion of guests in the area is “particularly small” Social (1.4 percent), Religion (0.7 percent) and education (0.1 percent).
According to the information, 1,208 programs were evaluated during a period between March 2017 and March 2020, as well as some problems of the times of the first peak of the corona pandemic. The “big 4” and “for selective comparisons” were also considered. “Markus Lanz” and the “Phoenix Round”.
A federal politician also made headlines in the latest edition of Frank Plasberg’s “tough but fair” talk, in this case Economic Affairs Minister Peter Altmaier.fn) *Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
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