A lance for Elke Heidenreich

ZDF broadcast the incident

Oh Gottchen - you seem to be offended at ZDF actually. First, take Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the beautiful colored plastic Award of ARD, ZDF, RTL and SAT1 not - ts, ts, is where the but even the Dieter Bohlen taken (!) - And then writes Elke Heidenreich, a long FAZ article in which it joins the opinion of the ignorant. Can be used for such insubordination to authorities such as the ZDF director must punish you as quickly as the audience and think about how quickly you settle Heidenreich's program "Read". Oh yes, that's what a handful of provincial, because that manages the € 7 billion of annual fees, if they cant actually a criminal action Heidenreich's mission. Provincial. Petty. And stupid.
Because the real problem is not the shallow soaps, talent shows or chart shows, in which the court jesters of that channel are permanently against each other with cheers in the world.

The real problem is: You're holding, "the auditorium itself" for saublöd. I will invent not, but it came just 30 minutes long wonderfully uncensored over the transmitter ("On this occasion," - who missed it, in the ZDF Media Watch). Reich-Ranicki Gottschalk tried to make a permanent clear that "the mass" [1] of the people do not want a quality that would like to see "the mass" spiritual niche products such as Atze Schröder and Ingo Appelt. Yes, says Gottschalk, of course, the directors would like to send "what Sophisticated" - but the audience, the audience. And so on and so on ... With "what Sophisticated" has Gottschalk, who stressed several times that he had some on the way to the teacher, "something" with Schiller and such. Bravo, Tommy, just _the_ understands "the masses" with "something Sophisticated". Yes, you are truly one of them ...
What Gottschalk did not understand that, whilst the program makers for ratings, but not only [2]. In reality they are two very different problems: a) You may have come in recent decades, the knowledge lost, how to make good programs. The media history can be beautifully demonstrated [3]. (Okay, it may prove even with a look at the program ) B) It lacks the people who have this knowledge or, more simply, it lacks "good" people - a problem that the sender share with many other institutions, such as political parties.
But actually I wanted to now not so much talk about the TV [4]. So back to our Elke Heidenreich. She wrote her article and well open. Well, she idealized me as though the Reich-Ranicki too much (the books that discussed this earlier literary critics were never really my thing), but of course they have the thing completely right. And even if not. She makes a good show. Not because the books she presents on her show "Reading", so "unique" would be. They are a matter of taste and my taste because it meets only occasionally. But because of those - one person on television, where it notes that it stands behind their concerns - a few. That they do it you because of the audience. That they simply being herself. And if there is any television peeved, is actually very indifferent. After all, you supposedly for us, the viewers. Allegedly.

[1] now are analogous, not direct quotes - just _so_ I have the show back then and not looked at.
[2] Because of course is now known in the industry that the Zielgruppendefiniton 14 - 49 years a pure invention of the first RTL-director was - only our Tommy has still not catch and cited the myths on the show more diligently.
[3] Many are still Czech children's films such as "Pan Tau" series, "Saxana - the girl on the broomstick," "Three Wishes for Cinderella," "Lucy, the horrors of the road ', etc., in 70-er/80-er years on one of the biggest film studios in Europe were filmed in Prague and to this day as "very good" are made. Some years earlier, 1968 was as a result of the crushing of the Prague Spring of political film came to a halt. They had now so suddenly highly qualified directors who are able to operate only in the field of children's movies - and delivered in accordance with quality movies.
[4] so we skip the points that, if, for example, the digital channels of ARD and ZDF to take, there are good programs that are in non-stop good can just relax, and to excite rather than should replace by zapping a good prog-rammierten hard disk recorder to be independent of any time schedule.