scientists from the Association’s “media diversity in Switzerland” have analyzed the “Winterthurer Zeitung”, since this is part of the SVP strategists Christoph Blocher . You wanted to find out how the political attitude of the owner affects the profile of the free newspaper.
The conclusion of the Association writes In the “Winterthurer Zeitung”, there are “more and more policy, in particular, more and more SVP,” he in a media release. Not been examined the contents of the “Winterthurer Zeitung” between March 2017 and December 2018, which are quite a hundred editions. Blocher took over the newspaper in September 2017.
SVP before the elections
In the half a year prior to the Acquisition by Blocher, the SVP was mentioned in only 4 percent of the article, between September 2017 and December 2018, already in 30 percent of the article. Shortly before the city of and municipal Council elections in Winterthur from the 4. March 2018, the party’s presence reached a 62 percent proportion of a peak value.
The media appearances in the free newspaper of the SVP in Winterthur used, however, The party experienced on the day of the election a debacle. The voting public decided to drop their kits Stayer Josef Lisibach after only four years in office, in the municipal Council, it lost three seats.
Alert city of Zurich
Interestingly, the development of the policy content will be in the city of Zurich. Recently, Christoph Blocher has acquired the Zurich, Switzerland, “journal”, published respectively in the official communications. SP city President Corine Mauch observed the development of the free newspaper. As you said a few weeks ago compared to the “Tagblatt” will the guards of the city that this publication remain politically balanced. Otherwise, his function is as the official journal on the game – and thus an important source of income. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 22.01.2019, 12:30 p.m.
