Germany: ARD's partisanship is becoming more and more obvious
There's a saying in the US: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck - then it's a duck. The same applies to the ARD and the Greens. Again and again, critics accuse the network of stations of being partisan and representing one-to-one green positions. ARD keeps telling its critics that they are right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Well: Detlef Flintz doesn't seem to care about distancing himself from taking sides with the Greens. On the one hand, he is an economics editor at WDR and, on the other hand, the website of the Greens in Grevenbroich identifies him as one of theirs. The journalist sits there on the party board – as secretary. This was shown by the "ÖRR Blog" on Twitter.
Der Grünen Funktionär Detlef Flintz spricht nicht nur Kommentare in den Tagesthemen, sondern ist auch Redakteur der WDR Sendung Markt. #ReformOERR #OERRBlog pic.twitter.com/e4nxvwmmIC
— ÖRR Blog. (@OERRBlog) August 30, 2022
Flintz became known nationwide last October. He was allowed to comment on inflation in the daily topics. And said: "It's here, the price shock, that's a good thing." He was glad that the rising prices were forcing Germans to change their consumption. About giving up flights. "Please no discussion" ordered the green WDR editor that "like junkies we can get cheap fossil raw materials again". The energy transition will make life more expensive, which Flintz thought was good. For the poor, the man who lives off broadcasting fees proposed an unconditional basic income.
According to the media academy of ARD and ZDF, Flintz volunteered at a daily newspaper and completed his studies as an economist. After that he started working as a freelancer for radio and worked on television for “plusminus”, “Monitor” and “Menschen Hautnah”: “He has worked as a WDR editor in the television business editorial department since 2001 and is primarily responsible for new formats in of consumer reporting.” He is the “father of the ARD brand check”. He is currently editor of the WDR consumer and business magazine “markt”. He received the Ernst Schneider Film Prize, the Kindernothilfe Prize and the German Fairness Prize in 2013. Flintz teaches at the Cologne School of Journalism and at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Whether journalistic neutrality is on the curriculum could not be clarified.
Source: Tichys Einblick