ARD und ZDF: SPD wirft Weimer indirekte Wahlkampfhilfe für AfD vor
Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer bringt die Privatisierung des ZDF und die Auflösung kleinerer ARD-Anstalten ins Gespräch. Die AfD lobt den Vorstoß, die SPD ist empört.
In Berlin, SPD media committee chair Heike Raab accused Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer of providing indirect electoral assistance to the AfD. Raab stated, "When you uncritically adopt the rhetoric of the AfD, you give it additional momentum." She questioned Weimer's motives when he sparked the debate against public broadcasting four days before important state elections.
Weimer's proposal was deemed a "false tongue and at the wrong time started a false debate." The state government of Rhineland-Palatinate, which oversees media policy coordination, considered Weimer's demands as a debate stimulus they "took note of." For the current work of the broadcasting commission, Weimer's statements were irrelevant, said Media State Secretary Torsten Welling (CDU).
Weimer had introduced a radical reform of the public broadcasting system. According to the news agency KNA, the state minister reportedly said in a Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung conference in Berlin that one must reconsider whether the existing ARD and ZDF system is still needed in its current form.
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