The ARD program director Christine Strobl has to endure a lot of criticism these days.

Although she wrote the plan for reforms in the first ARD program and in the ARD media library with her deputy Florian Hager and the editor-in-chief Oliver Köhr, she is alone in the fire.

The proposals are far-reaching.

The number of issues of the political magazines in the first is to shrink from 90 to 66, instead there is to be a new political format used by the magazine editors, more information in the media library, a talk show à la Markus Lanz like on ZDF, formats determined by personalities , and the “Weltspiegel” should move from early Sunday to late Monday evening (called “death zone” by insiders).

The objections are plentiful, pointedly formulated by Georg Restle, the head of the “Monitor” editorial team at WDR, who thinks that ARD is squandering its investigative potential and promoting “trivialization”.

Former directors, foreign correspondents, magazine editors, freelance authors and the German Association of Journalists oppose this.

The list of critics is long.

The Berlin Greens' media working group has joined this group: It is right to focus on strengthening the media library in addition to the linear program.

This corresponds to the legal mandate and is "important for the social debate in the now threatened democracy".

But one must keep the linear program, with a view to this, "the airtime is also a journalistic-editorial commitment to relevance".

That is the direct answer to a sentence in a conversation by Christine Strobl in the FAZ (July 16), which read: “In classic linear television, broadcasting slots and reliability still play a major role, but a broadcasting slot alone is not relevant . "

To compete with ZDF with similar programs at the same time is unimaginative, says the state working group of the Berlin Greens.

The "mantra-like mantra presented by the new ARD executive floor of ingratiation to a younger audience" could "not mean giving up your own ideas," said the Greens in a polemic that one (if one does not listen to Christine Strobl) maybe still like to follow.

A “power-conscious woman” going it alone?

With what then follows, however, the green media department from Berlin wins the jackpot for misogynous political allegation, as it says that “you can't help but get the impression that the power-conscious new program director of ARD, Christine Strobl, has a certain political agenda when it comes to displacing the information competence of ARD into the low-reach linear airtime instead of making the political magazines more present. "

Does that mean there is a secret agenda to depoliticize ARD?

Which Christine Strobl enforces alone?

In the ARD, nobody gets through anything on their own for the first program and the media library.

Editors-in-chief, program directors, and artistic directors have their say.

The proposals under discussion do not lead to depoliticization, but to different approaches and give magazine makers the task of tackling new things.

How about more unpredictability instead of the well-trodden path?

However, such a thing cannot be discussed at the level that Berlin's Greens have reached.

That's pretty far, not to say: right at the bottom.