He constantly interrupts, he doesn't listen, he ignores arguments. The main thing is that he is right (but he is often not): Markus Lanz
- The show: "Markus Lanz" from June 11, 2020
- Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD) was among the guests
- The moderator Markus Lanz shows old weaknesses
Whoever goes to a talk show as a guest should bring three things with them: self-confidence, competence on the subject and a certain thick skin. If you let Markus Lanz invite you, you need something more: a shaken degree of masochism. Whereby: This is especially true for people who the moderator (who is not) suspects to be left. He only touches right-wing extremists like his favorite guests Robin Alexander (Die Welt) or Wolfram Weimer (Cicero) with velvet gloves.
Markus Lanz: Permanent interruptions and false claims
But one wears the "Green" or "Social" mark if he should arm himself. Against permanent falling into words, against arguments drowning out (optionally overhearing), against distortion and insistence on false claims. Hubertus Heil, minister of labor and social affairs and, to his unfortunate social democrat, was able to experience this now. Markus Lanz always shows such people that they can say what they want: He runs over them anyway.
Just yesterday we had a TV review of Lanz 'show that described him as being on the boulevard. And this meeting was also not the first craze, and one has to ask if Lanz is what he is like because his pseudo-critical nature creates the level of arousal that then gives him the odds. And whether you should continue to report on this Mainz branch of the Inquisition.
Markus Lanz ignores facts
But then again it seems important to show what the arguments of Lanz's delinquents are. Or that he ignores facts himself. For example, he insisted that SPD leader Saskia Esken had made a general suspicion against police officers when she pointed out the latent racism in parts of the German police. And he had the statement in writing, but left out part of it and was not disturbed by Hubertus Heil's clarification - no: Lanz proceeded according to the motto of the patriarch from Lessing's "Nathan the Wise": "Does nothing. The Jew is burned. "
#Lanz naturally omits Esken's sentence below. But fairness in the discussion about racism cannot be expected from #Lanz anyway ... pic.twitter.com/00CfZv4tV2
- Daniel Mandić (@DnlMndc) June 11, 2020That it would have been the task of a moderator to counteract the ominous shortening of Esken's statement in these times, since false quotes are blossoming online. Instead, Lanz rode his hobbyhorse: ignorance. For example, when it comes to the automotive industry. The fact that Corona did not cause the crisis first, as sociologist Harald Welzer explained, did not go down well with the host. It was just about making his point: there would be many unemployed.
Markus Lanz: Differentiation is not his thing
Lanz's reference to China as a missing sales market for German exports went in the same direction of disaster summoning. However, as Heil corrected him, it mainly goes to the EU. The minister resisted "this woodcut-like story", one has to "look more differentiated." That is not Lanz's business at all.
Through his thinking, however, he became the representative of an attitude that Welzer aptly described. We lived in the best of all worlds, so to speak. But it is constantly changing. But being successful has a tendency to resist change. And while the virus is making the world stand still for a moment "like sleeping beauty", according to the scientist, we have no "picture of the future".
Anyone who had persevered to the end was then able to experience the eloquent and clever plea of journalist Jana Pareigis for a closer look at German racism. She called for the system of racial profiling to be investigated, that is, the attitude of police officers, for example, to suspect and harass people of color faster and more frequently. And when she mentioned the unexplained NSU complex, she elicited the minister's confession that the NSU scandal was "a shame for our country."
Markus Lanz - The Show
Markus Lanz, ZDF, from Thursday, June 11, 11:15 p.m. The broadcast on the net.
