The Ringier case is clear. But what about Tamedia? In my opinion, a distinction needs to be made there. The "Tages-Anzeiger" is trying to provide serious reporting on "No Billag" and is doing so with a large number of differentiated and differently weighted articles. In contrast, at "20 Minuten" a hateful, spelling-impaired mob has taken over the comment columns, shouting down any negative opinion of "No Billag", which is very irritating.
At the "Sonntags-Zeitung", which is usa rcs data struggling in terms of content, a group has come together under the leadership of the former "Weltwoche" man and Köppel confidant Andreas Kunz, who continued the SVP paper's anti-SRG campaign, even with nebulous polls at the weekend. Super editor-in-chief Arthur Rutishauser also joins in this chorus, saying that it is of course "nonsense" to claim that private broadcasters cannot broadcast a Lauberhorn race. In doing so, he joins the ranks of politicians who are contesting the current debate without any basic knowledge of the television business. Here are just a few facts: the cost of broadcasting this event is around 1.5 million francs. and the sale of broadcasting rights amounts to just under 300,000 francs. How often would someone like Peter Wanner approve such a project? Exactly!
The mistakes of the "SonntagsZeitung" even went so far that, in a fit of right-wing populist slickness, they hired the notorious blowhard Andreas Thiel to review my book "No Billag?". There he accused me of using "Nazi vocabulary" without any evidence. But this was the result of journalistic depravity in dealing with a major issue and not the product of a "witch hunt on Swiss radio and television" ordered by Pietro Supino, as Meyer claims. The same applies to Rutishauser's apology to me, which he only made on the industry portal persoenlich.com , not in his own newspaper.