I think it is a scandal to move Troy to Greece"
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:38 am
Although I have always worked in private media companies myself, I am one of the staunch defenders of our radio and television SRF. Because a well-functioning and strong democracy needs public television - and vice versa. In our small country in particular, this cannot be replaced by the private broadcasters. Anyone who claims otherwise simply has no idea of the economic realities in the electronic media sector.
But every now and then I still find it difficult to break a lance for SRF. For example, when the award-winning Radio SRF science editor Katharina Bochsler informs me for five minutes about the "toxic cocktails russia rcs data of pesticides" and, although she always speaks politically correctly of "farmers" and "researchers", does not tell me until the end what exactly the problem with these "toxic cocktails" is. Do they kill fish? Do they cause the river banks to silt up? Do they make people who drink water infertile? I don't know, because Katharina Bochsler and Bochslerin didn't tell me. The good thing about it is that she didn't say anything wrong.
In contrast to her colleague, who presented the news on SRF 1 and 4 this morning and, in connection with the Trojan computer surveillance bill in the federal parliament, unhesitatingly transported the city of Troy "to ancient Greece". As a great admirer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, I was a little speechless, or rather I swallowed the toothpaste I was brushing my teeth with. (As a reminder: Troy was in Asia and was razed to the ground by the Greeks because it threatened their dominance in the eastern Mediterranean. The story about the abduction of Helen sounds and reads well, but it is cheap Greek propaganda.) But then my colleague Balts pointed out to me that this was nothing, because yesterday Radio SRF had repeatedly reported that the Morgenstraich had taken place in Brussels. As a self-confessed Zurich native, this left me pretty cold. As far as I'm concerned, they could also export FCB to Belgium, then FCZ would at least be guaranteed to be Swiss champions. But moving Troy to Greece is a real scandal in my opinion. That's why I n
But every now and then I still find it difficult to break a lance for SRF. For example, when the award-winning Radio SRF science editor Katharina Bochsler informs me for five minutes about the "toxic cocktails russia rcs data of pesticides" and, although she always speaks politically correctly of "farmers" and "researchers", does not tell me until the end what exactly the problem with these "toxic cocktails" is. Do they kill fish? Do they cause the river banks to silt up? Do they make people who drink water infertile? I don't know, because Katharina Bochsler and Bochslerin didn't tell me. The good thing about it is that she didn't say anything wrong.
In contrast to her colleague, who presented the news on SRF 1 and 4 this morning and, in connection with the Trojan computer surveillance bill in the federal parliament, unhesitatingly transported the city of Troy "to ancient Greece". As a great admirer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, I was a little speechless, or rather I swallowed the toothpaste I was brushing my teeth with. (As a reminder: Troy was in Asia and was razed to the ground by the Greeks because it threatened their dominance in the eastern Mediterranean. The story about the abduction of Helen sounds and reads well, but it is cheap Greek propaganda.) But then my colleague Balts pointed out to me that this was nothing, because yesterday Radio SRF had repeatedly reported that the Morgenstraich had taken place in Brussels. As a self-confessed Zurich native, this left me pretty cold. As far as I'm concerned, they could also export FCB to Belgium, then FCZ would at least be guaranteed to be Swiss champions. But moving Troy to Greece is a real scandal in my opinion. That's why I n