SRG ombudsman's office agrees with Rhaeto-Romansh people
Not mentioning Romansh at all in a program about multilingualism violates the SRG's principle of fairness. The umbrella organization of the Romansh language associations, Lia Rumantscha, successfully intervened with the Ombudsman's Office of SRG German-speaking Switzerland.
The fourth national language remained unmentioned on July 8 of this year in the 17-minute program "Tagesgespräch" on Radio SRF1. The topic was multilingualism in Switzerland. As Lia Rumantscha announced on Monday, it met with full understanding with its complaint.
To omit Romansh and not to mention the Italian-speaking Grisons was more than a mistake, the complaints office admitted. The Lia Rumantscha is satisfied with the statement received and refrains from taking the complaint to the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television UBI.
This is not the first time that Rhaeto-Romansh speakers have been forgotten by SRG in reports about languages. About four years ago, the Lia Rumantscha felt compelled to contact the Ombudsman's Office because SRF's "Tagesschau" did not mention the fourth national language in a report about Switzerland's quadrilingualism and multilingualism. (Werbewoche.ch reported). (SDA)
