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Switzerland Is Reduced to Tennis Switzerland’S Image in the Foreign Media 82 International Switzerland is reduced to tennis Switzerland’s image in the foreign media The wounds have healed slowly. At the turn threshold – something that cannot be maintained of the millennium, the country of the Alps, of about the outrage on the Holocaust connections. The Swiss had to realize in the lakes and chocolate was faced with a media That said, the scars seem to have healed. Switzer- Arab countries at the beginning of storm on a part of its history, which the Swiss land has sunk back into media nirvana. Graph 1 2006, how fast an image problem themselves would have preferred to ignore: illustrates the extent to which this has happened: can arise: In the heat of the cartoon What role did their politicians, entrepreneurs, The US prime time news have done entirely with- controversy, their national flag was scientists, teachers and others actually play out references to events in the 26 cantons, and the burned along with the Danish one. during the Hitler period? same is true for journalists of the BBC or ITV. Arab TV news as well as South African and Ger- The neutral image, passed on for decades in man news broadcast occasional stories. Yet graph schoolbooks, rhetorical speeches and media cov- 2 shows that TV journalists in particular, seem to erage, had cracked in view of an international become aware of this country in the heart of Eu- wave of litigation that was caused by American rope when their tennis idol is playing at a tourna- lawyer Ed Fagan, representing Jewish victims of ment. Without Roger Federer, Switzerland would the Holocaust. He tried to publicly demonstrate be just as relevant for the international TV stage that Swiss banks, in particular, but also other com- as Mozambique, the Seychelles or Andorra. panies, as well as the Federal Council of Bern had Business sections of the international media do profi ted from the victims’ suffering. not provide another, more active image of Swit- For months, Switzerland made headlines with zerland, either. One example is the company cov- a subject matter that nobody wants to be associ- erage in Switzerland’s most important economic ated with. It was especially damaging to the im- partner country: The German opinion leading age of a country that had gotten extremely cozy in media largely ignore corporations such as ABB, the niche “exclusive neutrality”, and one that was Nestlé or UBS. Novartis tops the news coverage paid good money for this reputational advantage: with 250 stories – for the analysis period of 10 Few other countries benefi t from UN postings like months this is an average of 25 news stories per Switzerland does. On occasion, some banks’ deal- month in 18 media outlets analyzed (Graph 3). ings with dictators have made headlines, when- This is less than two stories per month per media ever accounts from Imelda Marcos and others outlet. showed up in Zurich, Geneva or Basel. But those In view of this routine coverage, Switzerland headlines normally remained below the awareness cannot build an image that creates awareness for 1) Presence of Switzerland in the Arab TV news 2) Topical structure of coverage in TV news Lebanon Sports Iraq Energy/Traffic Palestine Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia Celebrities Companies Iran Crime Egypt Society USA other themes Israel Domestic Policy Germany Internat. Conflicts Great Britain State of the Econ. ... Culture Switzerland 38 stories Party Policy 0 2.000 4.000 6.000 8.000 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Number of news stories 100%: Overall media coverage on Switzerland Source: Media Tenor Basis: Overall 44.817 mentions Source: Media Tenor Basis: 351 stories on Switzerland 01/01 – 08/31/2006 in 7 arabic media 01/01 – 08/31/2006 in 31 TV news Media Tenor Research Report Nr. 157 – I/2007 MMT157_78-83ENGLISCH.inddT157_78-83ENGLISCH.indd 6 220.04.20070.04.2007 112:19:302:19:30 83 International Basis: the special qualities of its companies. Yet the cor- Media: 31 international TV news (Germany, U.S., UK, porations from Basel, Vevey or Zurich enjoy high Arabia, South Africa): Germany: ARD Tagesthemen, ARD standing within the German journalistic commu- Tagesschau, ZDF Heute, ZDF Heute Journal, RTL Aktuell, nity. Coverage is rather positive on balance – aside Sat.1 News, ProSieben News, U.S.: NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News; ABC World News Tonight, FOX News; from the bankrupt Swissair. Its successor SWISS Südafrika: Africaans News, English News, E-tv News, Zulu/ has gained a respect on par with Roche or Swatch xhosa News, Sotho News, SABC 3 News @ One, SABC in the editorial rooms from FAZ to Spiegel. How- 3 News @ 10, SABC 2 The Newsmarker; UK: BBC 1 6 Low awareness: The German ever, the media performance of Swiss companies O´Clock News, BBC 1 10 O´Clock News, ITN Early Evening opinion leading media can easily do News, ITV News At Ten, BBC 2 Newsnight; Arabic media: does not appear to be sustainable. Al Manar, Al Alam, Al Arabiyah, Al Ikhbariya, Al Jazeera, without ABB, Nestlé or UBS. Another scandal, and the international media will Lbc, Nile News; 18 German TV and print media (coverage see red again. This can happen at any time, as the on companies) Swiss had to realize in the Arab countries at the Period of analysis: 01.01. – 31.10.2006 Analysis: 351 stories on Switzerland; overall 145.322 stories beginning of 2006: In the heat of the cartoon con- in 31 TV news were analysed, and 209.350 passages (at least troversy, their national fl ag was burned along with 5 lines/sec.) on companies in German TV and print media. the Danish one. Had they communicated above the awareness threshold, the mistake would have occurred to the journalists in charge. (rs) 3) Presence of Swiss companies 4) Rating of Swiss companies in German media in German media Novartis Novartis UBS negative UBS no clear rating Credit Suisse Credit Suisse positive Nestlé Nestlé Adecco Adecco Serono Serono Roche Roche ABB ABB Swiss Swiss Swisscom Swisscom Swiss RE Swiss Re Zurich Zurich Sandoz Sandoz Winterthur Winterthur Swissair Swissair Ringier Ringier Syngenta Syngenta Swatch Swatch Unaxis Unaxis Clariant Clariant Ciba SC Ciba SC 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Number of passages Share of all ratings Source: Media Tenor Basis: 209.350 passages on companies, Source: Media Tenor Basis: 209.350 passages on companies, 01/01 – 10/31/2006 industries and managers in 18 German media 01/01 – 10/31/2006 industries and managers in 18 German media Media Tenor Research Report Nr. 157 – I/2007 MMT157_78-83ENGLISCH.inddT157_78-83ENGLISCH.indd 7 220.04.20070.04.2007 112:19:352:19:35.
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