Complaints to the SRG ombudsman's office due to language abuse 

In recent months, the SRG ombudsman's office has received several complaints about the use of allegedly incorrect words or terms. This is reported in the SRG magazine Link. As is already known, a number of people have complained that the weather program "Meteo" is now being presented in dialect. For legal reasons, the ombudsman's office was unable to protect this accusation, Link continues. The Independent Complaints Authority (UBI) will now deal with this issue. A single complainant was disturbed by the expression "it stinks" in a report by Radio DRS on the May 1st riot. However, the ombudsman Achille Casanova, in agreement with the editors responsible, does not regard this formulation as a linguistic slip. The verb "stink" is often used figuratively.
Another complaint concerned the term "brown brood" for right-wing extremist thugs. Casanova agrees with the critic: the term is too reminiscent of Nazi language and does not belong in an SR DRS information program. However, the ombudsman's office does not consider an apology for this, as it could be indirectly interpreted as an endorsement of the actions of right-wing extremists, especially if it is taken out of context. Casanova attaches great importance to careful use of language and quotes the UBI: the decisive factor is whether the formation of opinion could be impaired by a term.