NDR affair: 72 employees write a fire letter to the broadcaster
Created: 08/30/2022, 08:17
By: Moritz Serif
The NDR is confronted with serious allegations.
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Does the NDR have "court reporting"?
This is one of the allegations against the broadcaster in the room.
The NDR denies.
There are new details
in the
NDR affair.
According to this, 72 employees of the state broadcasting center wrote a fire letter to the station.
They demand "a complete and transparent processing of all allegations".
"It is important to us that all allegations are cleared up," said the media representatives.
This is necessary in order to "restore the lost trust in us and in the viewers, listeners and users." The letter is
exclusively available to the
star .
ntv
also
reports about it.
The allegations against the station are court reporting and censorship.
There are also political filters.
The governing party CDU, in particular Prime Minister Daniel Günther, was protected by the reporting.
For example, the NDR did not report on a drunk driving with accident consequences by the former CDU MP Hans-Jörn Arp.
The politician had rammed two cars in 2019 with 1.6 per thousand.
Arp was considered a close confidant of Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther.
NDR affair: employees speak of influence on reporting
“They tell us that they have the impression that there is a filter in the editorial office.
Reporting is partially prevented and critical information is downplayed.
Authors would be deducted and posts in the acceptances would be massively changed.
The mood in the department is poisoned because conflicts smolder for so long," the editorial board said.
"For me, the extent is frightening," says MEP Patrick Breyer in
Stern
.
"If he (the
NDR
) is a propaganda department or the government's court reporter, then he really loses his right to exist." That is a "much bigger scandal than the waste of public money where you try to enrich yourself personally," says Breyer .
"NDR is about the fundamental task of public service broadcasting in a democracy," said the politician.
NDR "resolutely" rejects allegations
The
NDR
"resolutely" rejects the allegations.
There was no lack of distance between the politicians and there was no "politically motivated influence" on the reporting.
I don't make this accusation the editorial committee's own either.
According to
Stern
, TV boss Norbert Lorentzen and Julia Stein, editor-in-chief of “Politics and Research”, have declared themselves biased.
They no longer accept contributors who deal with the allegations against the NDR.
(mse)