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A sensible and forward-looking decision

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:13 am
by asimd23
For years, politicians have only been concerned with protecting the SRG - the concerns of the few remaining private media companies were ignored. Now parliamentarians have the opportunity to strengthen the newspaper industry through indirect press funding - for the benefit of democracy and federalism.

The whole world is talking about digitalization - and morocco rcs data rightly so. Swiss media companies are working hard to combine their journalistic content with new business models and thus shape our country's media landscape. They are in a business transition phase - financially expensive and a business risk. However, constructive management of this transition phase is necessary in order to enable regional and local journalism and thus opinion-forming in all regions of our diverse country in the future.

During the transition phase from print to digital, printed newspapers are and will remain the most important and credible mediators of political content: 90 percent of voting citizens consider our newspapers, produced by professional journalists, to be the most important source of opinion formation. The companies must use the income from these newspapers, which are valued by readers, to finance the development and construction of the online platforms.