Answer to submitter. Let the news editors do their job

Åsa Sohlgren, Patrizia Svedberg and Carl Öhlén advocate in a submitter in DN A form of minute rights in the large media, based on their own time measurements. I can see in front of me how they carefully clock the elements on the TV couch to fill a gigantic sheet.

Your passion for the climate is possibly commendable, but, please do not mix up news reporting with political opinion formation. This is contrary to the ownership directive for Sweden’s Radio, Sweden’s Television and also TV4’s agreement with the state. The news editions should review and inform, not conduct political campaign.

I trust that Aktuellt, Ekot and TV4 News make relevant editorial assessments. On the other hand, I think that climate reporting is often tedious, almost like TV advertising, where old facts are repeated without any relevant news testing seems to have been done, which has not benefited the climate issue.

According to my own Time studies are surprisingly often « climate news » is posted on Mondays after long weekends. It is easy to imagine that the issue is suitable for materials that can be prepared in advance to fill the broadcast when most of the employees have been vacant.

I do not call that good news media. It is opinion formation. It is unfortunate, and here the editors should take the task more seriously.

Following your entered minute schedule risks running viewers to less accurate channels, away from « old goa » SVT and SR. No thanks to « minute rights » – an absurd idea that can be likened to demand from the sports mirror that they distribute the time based on the number of practitioners per sport.

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