Communication science? In the past, the old warhorses in the newspaper editorial offices put out their cigarettes and said to the interns asking for career advice: Don't! Even German studies are a better preparation for the career of a journalist. The communication scientists have no idea what is really going on at the front. However, most of the old fighters, who had learned their profession from lead typesetting, only knew from hearsay in their local pub what nonsense was taught at the universities.
Berthold Kohler
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Of course, these are now tempi passati. An academic preoccupation with the many varieties of communication is no longer considered proof of being unsuitable for the profession of journalist. Politicians, too, have long since ceased to close their minds to the findings of communication science and the advice provided by their representatives. Not every politician is a communicative natural like our Chancellor, who does not need a theoretical superstructure for what he does not have to say to the people.
What did Kühnert want to tell us?
He leaves the care of this to the SPD General Secretary Kühnert, who, like many of his colleagues, proves again and again that one can be competent in all areas even without a degree. The self-taught Kühnert has expanded the theoretical edifice of communication science to include two terms that make such sense that one wonders why they have not long since been used to describe and explain more than just the hemispheres in which the coalition's crisis communication moves: "refusal communication" and "enabling communication".
What did Kühnert want to say to us or the FDP? Of course, that the latter should move from the dark camp of the refuseniks to the paradise of the enablers of the heating turnaround and announce this with pleasantly warm words. However, the SPD and the Greens are making the generous offer to finally belong to the cheerful yes-men not only to their so-called coalition partner, but to all of us, and on many issues: immigration, naturalization, the release of cannabis, gendering, gender change. We should be grateful for this and reward the government for the comprehensive expansion of our possibilities with slightly better poll ratings.
You only have to look at the AfD politicians
Let's be honest: Do you really enjoy the endless refusal communication? The eternal oiling around can't be healthy, you just have to look at the faces of the AfD politicians. Seen in the light, there is nothing wrong with enabling communication, you just have to think carefully about what you want to make possible for whom. We can think of a few things: the SPD the recovery in the opposition, Kühnert a degree in political communication science with a focus on empty phrases and the Greens a refresher seminar on the basics of anti-authoritarian education, which they have obviously forgotten on the march through the institutions.
Habeck wouldn't hurt a few years of apprenticeship with an installer to drive out the heat pump fluff. There he could also learn how to communicate with people so that they understand what is going on with the heating corpse in their basement. Kühnert admitted that Scholz could also have intervened "louder" and "more vulgarly" in the debate. Did the Secretary General have Rötger Feldmann's comic character Werner (a pithy plumber, like Scholz from the far north) in mind? Well, we're glad that the chancellor once again "worked more in the background to find a solution", i.e. something like Uli Hoeneß at Bayern Munich. However, some scientific advice would probably not hurt the new and old German football champions either, especially not in the field of dismissal communication.