News on Radio SRF 1. The Middle East correspondent is connected to report from Beirut in the form of an interview. The presenter questions him in a routine and expert manner. For every answer, she spontaneously has an original follow-up question, often enriched with astonishing details. The woman must obviously be in a correspondent's booth herself, the questions are so targeted and full of background knowledge.
No, of course not. The man who covers the Middle mexico rcs data East for SRF told the presenter beforehand what he wanted to be asked. Or rather, what he had to be asked so that he could provide all the information to the listeners. The woman at the microphone in Zurich may have no idea where Beirut is, even if she sounds like an insider. The whole thing is agreed from A to Z and about as spontaneous as the proceedings of the Innerrhoden Landsgemeinde. No wonder, after all, the woman at the microphone has to deal with a variety of topics, so how is she supposed to be up to date on the situation in Beirut?
What has been described is daily practice at SRF: the moderated discussion. It is understandable that this method is used, it provides variety. So that the correspondents from all over the world do not have to constantly read out their carefully prepared texts from a sheet of paper in a monologue-like manner, they are questioned instead. And they then give their carefully prepared answers to the questions from a sheet of paper. The only difference is that there are two voices involved. The information content is the same, something is simply inserted in between.