What is the job of a journalist?
The shortest and simplest answer is: education.
Ever since the free press emerged in the 18th century, this has included closely monitoring the situation, formulating criticism and exposing scandals.
Journalists still do all of this today - the only question is where they direct their energies.
If you follow the media discussion about the federal government's failures in organizing the corona vaccine, you can get the impression that it is not politics but criticism of this policy that is the real scandal.
"Not everything went well, but the alternatives were worse," wrote the ZDF correspondent Stefan Leifert on Twitter and taught the critics of the federal government in a series of ten tweets that they were wrong. The ARD presenter Anne Will commented on Leifert's contribution with the emoji for applause, and Birthe Sönnichsen, editor in the ARD capital studio, translated the whole thing again into the language of a journalistic special education teacher: “Please read. Please cool down. Please be happy that Germany has chosen the European route. Please communicate delivery quantities clearly. Please perfect the organization in the federal states now. Please stop playing blame games. "