The ARD and ZDF are again debating vigorously - but a current study provides new criticism of the talks from “Anne Will” to “Maischberger”.
The authors make a dubious judgment.
Berlin
- The season for political talk shows has officially reopened since Sunday.
With
“Anne Will” *
, the flagship of the public broadcasters has also returned to the television screens.
Punctually criticism is now also loud: A recent
study
analyzed
the participation of the "Big 4" on
ARD
and
ZDF
over three years
.
The remarkable result: With Will, but also
"hard but fair"
, "Maischberger" *
and
"Maybrit Illner" *
, the invited guests "insufficiently" reflect the political reality in the country.
At the end of 2019, another evaluation had revealed a clear imbalance.
“Anne Will” and Co: “Pointedly Formulated” - Study delivers new criticism of political talks by ARD and ZDF
The paper was drawn up by the left-liberal Berlin think tank
“Das Progressive Zentrum”
, which has already worked with various party foundations and federal ministries.
The verdict on the
talk show reality
on German TV is not exactly positive.
The paper "Die Talkshow-Gesellschaft" reveals, among other things, that
NGOs, consumer advocates, local and European politicians
or even
politicians with East German socialization are
rather underrepresented.
According to the survey,
scientists
hardly had a say for a long time - only at the beginning of the
Corona crisis
increased their share of appearances in the big talk shows. "To put it bluntly, capital politics meets capital journalism in the talk shows," write the
authors Paulina Fröhlich and Johannes Hillje
.
1.) At the "Big 4" of the talk shows (Anne Will, tough but fair, Maischberger, Maybrit Illner) 65.5 percent of all guests come from politics and journalism;
8.8 percent from science;
6.4 percent economy;
2.8 percent culture;
2.7 percent organized civil society (2/8) pic.twitter.com/TVOdlHEEWs
- Johannes Hillje (@JHillje) September 8, 2020
"The talk show presence of organizations that enjoy particularly high levels of trust in society (eg consumer protection, NGOs, trade unions) is particularly low,"
the study concluded
.
"At the same time, the reality of the political multilevel system is not adequately depicted, which could particularly affect the appreciation of the local and European levels."
Talk shows from “Anne Will” to “Maischberger” in the criticism - education and social issues hardly have a say
The authors have also provided some specific figures.
According to the survey,
eight out of ten guests from the business sector are
representatives of the
entrepreneurial side.
A full 70 percent of the participating politicians were active at the federal level.
According to the study,
scientists
(8.9 percent of participants)
hardly had a say in the period before Corona
.
Even
economy
(6.4 percent),
culture
(2.8 percent) and
civil society organizations
(2.7 percent) were underrepresented.
The proportion of guests from the
social
(1.4 percent),
religion
(0.7 percent) and
education
(0.1 percent) areas was
“particularly small”
.
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According to the information, 1,208 programs were evaluated over a period from March 2017 to March 2020 - as well as some issues from the times of the first peak of the corona pandemic.
The “Big 4” and “
Markus Lanz”
and the
“Phoenix Round”
were considered for “selective comparisons
”.
A federal politician made the headlines in the latest edition of Frank Plasberg's talk "hart aber fair" - in this case, Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier. (
Fn
) *
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