20 minutes: Kaufmann's front page has appeared
Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, the front page of 20 Minuten appeared in an unusual layout on Wednesday: The first two pages listed the names of several thousand opponents of an SVP ad.
They all had the crowdfunding campaign "I've had it!" of the Baden student Donat Kaufmann with a financial contribution. He was responding to an ad by the SVP, which had promoted its election campaign song on the front page of 20 Minuten in mid-September.
The creator of the campaign wanted to set an example and "draw attention to the absurd features of the current election campaign," as he wrote on the crowdfunding platform on the Internet. His goal: to raise 138'815 francs by October 14 in order to be able to buy the front page on that day.
He has succeeded in doing so. Thanks to more than 12'200 supporters, a total of just under 147'300 francs was raised. As a result, the names of the donors now appeared on the first two pages of the free newspaper - accompanied by the sentence: "Attention can be bought. Our votes can't." According to Tamedia spokesman Christoph Zimmer, the cost of the double-page spread was "only" 126'000 francs. Watson interview Says. (hae/SDA)
