Georg Restle leaves “Monitor” and goes to Nairobi | EUROtoday

Viewers of the WDR journal “Monitor” will see Georg Restle as a presenter as soon as once more, on March twenty sixth. After that, another person takes his place; Who, that has not but been determined at WDR. Meanwhile, Restle, who has headed the editorial group of “Monitor” since 2012 and moderated the journal, will take over the administration of the ARD studio in Nairobi on June 1st.

WDR editor-in-chief Ellen Ehni bids Restle farewell to Kenya with heat phrases. He stands for “profound and critical journalism with backbone”. At “Monitor” he “always showed big connections with his excellent journalistic compass and made it clear what they mean for people here in Germany”.

He is “very much looking forward to the new challenge, which I face with great humility,” mentioned Restle. For him, it’s “above all about strengthening the reporting from African countries on ARD and bringing the big topics from this huge reporting area closer to a German audience, precisely because they are also of great relevance to us. Whether it’s geopolitics, migration or the new wars over raw materials, that’s what I dealt with journalistically at ‘Monitor’ – that will also keep me busy in Nairobi. In this respect, the new task also corresponds to my journalistic aspiration to bring topics and stories to the forefront and to let people have their say who would otherwise not be seen or be heard.”

The excessive tone during which WDR’s message is formulated matches the habitus of “Monitor”. Under Restle it has advanced from a journalistic to an ultra-left ideological undertaking. How Restle works may very well be seen in excessive kind final yr within the counterfactual program “People in Fear: How Crime is Used to Make Politics,” during which he believed he might show that international crime was not an issue, however an invention of “right-wing” politicians: a major instance of public political activism masquerading as journalism.