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It may remain an open question as to which type of editorial management better guarantees internal press freedom. But the critics, who come from circumstances that differ from those at Ringier only in their practical form, speak with forked tongues. They are also hypocrites and Pharisees. Most of their employers already receive media funding through the postal tariff reduction. Only hardly anyone knows this. And some of them say that if the vote is yes on February 13, they would also receive the new aid because otherwise the market would be distorted. This dialectic is worthy of a Nobel Prize.

But the timing of the Walder "scandal" was of middle east rcs data course not chosen by chance. It is about dealing the death blow to the media package, as Roger Köppel has already gleefully stated. It is all about the large publishers, with each other (how else can the NZZ attacks on Tamedia and Ringier be explained?). The fact that the majority of media funding is aimed at small and medium-sized publishers is completely ignored in the egocentric view of the Zurich media sector.

In the end, however, the question arises as to whether the public is even interested in all this, whether it is really relevant and whether it will not, as is often the case, remain mere media navel-gazing. It can be assumed that a large majority of "Blick" readers were more convinced by their paper's Corona reporting than by the demolition policy that "Bild" in Germany pursued towards the federal government.