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To: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Can you please explain to me why you believe that your attitude should be recognized as infallible in the presence of all humanity?
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You will remember that seven years ago we formulated the first urgent appeal and distributed it nationwide: It was about an important human rights issue, the “enforcement initiative” launched by the SVP, an attack on foreigners in Switzerland, an attack on the separation of powers and Constitutional state. At the time, we responded with a “no” campaign, which met with a great response, and we won in February 2016. Together with other civil society organizations, we were able to turn the vote at the last minute when everything seemed lost.
In 2018 we went public again with an urgent appeal and an urgent “no”. Again it was about internationally documented human rights, which this time were to be attacked head-on and put out of force with a “self-determination initiative”. If the anti-human rights initiative had been adopted in 2018, Switzerland would have said goodbye to its democratic traditions and to the international community.
Thanks to your support of the Urgent Appeal, it was possible to avert this dangerous advance as well.
The year 2021 is now drawing to a close, and we are once again very worried. In the vote on November 28, almost forty percent of the electorate voted against a law that is intended to protect the weakest in the current pandemic and which also requires some restrictions in our comfortable everyday life. One can and should of course discuss the corona policy and its consequences, but still on the basis of reasonably certain facts. That was not the case in this vote. Instead, fictitious, absurd arguments repeatedly cropped up in the debate that had already been refuted hundreds of times by science, justice and politics. Never before has a Swiss referendum campaign been waged with such excessive exaggerations, open threats and abstruse conspiracy theories.
We believe that, especially in the current situation, the Swiss media have an extremely important, responsible function that they can no longer easily fulfill.
The media have come under great pressure in recent years. They sold far fewer advertisements and subscriptions, and lost significant resources. The situation for journalists in many editorial offices is precarious today. Carelessly and inadequately edited media quickly lose credibility. Dissatisfied people quickly switch to social media channels in which - like at the regulars' table - they are spoken to. Political groups use this situation. Market-optimized search engines replace civic information.
But democracy needs knowledge, and knowledge needs money. Well-informed, independent, professionally designed media are central to any democracy. In Switzerland, with its numerous referendums, the diversity of the media is even more important than anywhere else. But many independent media have disappeared in recent years. Some regions no longer have their own information organs, many cities and municipalities are only informed by monopoly media.
In February 2022, Swiss voters will vote on a media promotion package. Publishing houses as well as regional radio and television stations, online portals, agencies, the press council and journalistic training are to be supported and promoted with a total of 178 million francs during the crisis. Small media benefit proportionally more than the big ones. The independence of the reporting from the state financier - the federal government - is guaranteed in any case.
Strong opposition has arisen against this media funding package. It comes from the same corner as the initiatives against human rights and part of the opposition to the pandemic law. Access to democratic media also has to do with human rights.
We at the Urgent Call would like to prepare for this voting campaign. If necessary, we will go public with our own appeal in January. But first we want to support those who are already involved in this campaign for media and democracy. Are you participating?
Since coordination battles are particularly difficult during the pandemic, the independent Association for Democracy and Media Diversity has prepared a mailbox campaign. With a donation you can help to supply your chosen neighborhood, your village or your region with an information flyer. We would like to ask you to support the campaign. You can find a link here:
Support mailbox campaign
Democracy needs opinion
Opinion needs knowledge.
Knowledge needs facts.
Facts need media.
Media need money.
Democracy needs money.
Media funding yes.
Thank you for your help and have a nice Fezdays!
Kind regards
For the coordination group: Irene Loebell, Niccolò Raselli, Alessandro Iacono, Fanny de Weck
If you would like to find out more about the Media Act:
Bakom has put together useful fact sheets for submission: https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/de/home/das-bakom/organisation/rechtliche-grundlagen/abstUNGEN/masshabenpaket-zugunsten-der-medien.html
The weekly newspaper WOZ offers an overview of the media situation in Switzerland that is worth reading and classifies it in the international development: https://www.woz.ch/-c074
The online magazine “Republik” explains why state media subsidies guarantee the independence of reporting: https://www. Republik.ch/2021/12/18/wer-hat-angst-vor-frei-medien
Matthias Zehnder takes the disputed arguments apart in his weekly comment and pleads for an acceptance: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/medienfoerderung-eine-auslegeordnung/
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