The SZ Bayern editorial team always tries very hard to guess what might interest readers. There are of course the issues that are set: state politics, bears, beer prices. This also falls under the term chronicler duty. For example, readers of the Bavarian section have a right to be informed about who wants to release various wild animals for shooting, when and why, and how much the mass at the festival cost.
In addition, there are the topics that a Bayern editorial team thinks might interest their readers – or should! Customs and history, inns, opposition parties in the Free State. Such things. The aim of all these stories is to inform, sometimes to entertain and to give the reader what they need to form their own opinion.
And then there are the news and reports that actually interest readers. Finding out what these are is the daily bread of every editorial office that keeps asking itself this nicely posed question: What moves people? The answer is always surprising. Recently, a very small report from Upper Bavaria was very well received: Man calls the police because of a naked neighbor.
The neighbor had gardened completely naked on his own property. This in turn bothered a local resident so much that he called the police. “The insightful gardener dressed in front of the officers,” the police statement said indulgently.
Nudity is ubiquitous, but when you suddenly encounter it on the garden fence, it obviously still gets a lot of people excited. “Working naked in your own garden: is that forbidden?”he asked immediately Danube courier. Courts up to the Federal Constitutional Court deal again and again with naked people.
There is a lot more hidden in this supposed report about being naked on your own property than it appears. The naked man dressed again “before the eyes of the officials”? How can you imagine that? Were the police officers on guard? Did they cover their eyes? And why did the man call the police in the first place? If he hadn’t just said “Hey neighbor, put something on! Too much information!” can shout?
Those are the really interesting questions. Or?