2024-09-09 19:00:25
Chancellor Scholz is also aware that the traffic light coalition is not giving a good public image. At the same time, he is critical of the media. After all, they are not making a new episode of “Good Times, Bad Times”.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticizes the public appearance of his traffic light coalition. “The government must accept the fact that many decisions were accompanied by fierce public disputes,” the SPD politician told the “Tagesspiegel”. “Because of all the gun smoke, sometimes you could no longer see what was actually being decided.” Yet “many of these decisions are groundbreaking.” He firmly expects that the traffic light coalition will stay together for the entire legislative period.
At the same time, Scholz used the opportunity to criticize the media and accused the media of not reporting appropriately. Citizens rarely learn what political discussions are really about. “Too often, the only thing reported is: Who acts like this? Who behaves badly? Who looks pretty or who expresses themselves particularly cleverly?” said Scholz. “But we are not doing a new episode of ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ here – it is about politics.”
Scholz: “It annoys me when the observation of politics focuses on the theatrical thunder that can be heard when every decisive reform is implemented, and the content hardly plays a role in the reporting.”
The Federal Chairman of the German Journalists’ Association (DJV), Mika Beuster, responded in the “Tagesspiegel”: “The job of a Chancellor is to make policy, to explain and to answer questions from journalists.” This is the “obligation” of a Chancellor. Beuster continued: “The impression is created that Scholz is ducking away from critical questions. Passing the problems on to the journalists is unworthy of the office of the Chancellor – after all, he bears responsibility for his policies.”