Actually, no scandals should be necessary for public service broadcasting to concentrate on its legal mandate.
The case of the director of the RBB is nevertheless another reason to reconsider the system - in the right places.
It's easy to get excited about business meals and massage seats – they and their billing at the expense of the general public are not that unusual anywhere else either.
control must be.
But an artistic director who has to have everything signed is not an artistic director.
The cap on top salaries demanded by the FDP also hits a nerve.
But then the true top earners should not be forgotten, the "brands" of the broadcasters, which are outside the salary structure, but are also paid with fees.
Gender speak is free
For liberal democracy, however, it remains crucial that public service broadcasting does not suffocate the private media with the billions it has collected by the state by acting like a private company in terms of expenditure and salaries and, on top of that, abandoning its statutory mandate.
It does not envisage producing quasi-state newspapers on the Internet.
It is enough if the paying citizen is served the same porridge in cloned rounds.
Genderspeak is included for free, but doesn't make it any better.
Broadcasting is too good for that – and too important.