Verein Medienkritik Schweiz: First annual event

The aim of the association is to support media-critical activities in Switzerland and thus promote media criticism. This criticism is a process that involves dialogue between media-critical organizations and the public, said the association's president, Gottlieb F. Höpli. In order to reach the public, the media is needed, which is why it cannot be irrelevant how media criticism develops in the media itself.

Höpli explains that media criticism is not just the self-gratification of frustrated people who have come up short and have been harmed by the media. Rather, media criticism should also point out deficits and undesirable developments in the media system and media policy. As there is a lack of commitment and passion in this area according to Höpli, a meta-critic is needed to deal with the various organizations and perspectives of media criticism.
For this reason, the association launched the new Medienkritik-schweiz.ch platform on Thursday. It contains statements from media professionals, experts and observers, brings together sources of media criticism and tracks their development.