Zero medium

Hans Magnus Enzensberger coined the term zero medium in 1988 in his television review , which polemically points out that all complaints about television are "irrelevant" because television has become a medium of non-objectivity ; While program-specific content was initially broadcast, it is increasingly degenerating into a medium of irrelevance and arbitrariness, a “ trance medium ” .

literature

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger: The zero medium or why all complaints about television are irrelevant . In: Peter Glotz (Ed.): Construction kit for a theory of the media. Critical Discourses on Freedom of the Press . Reinhard Fischer Verlag, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-88927-162-6 . First under the title: The Complete Void. The zero medium or why all complaints about television are groundless . In: DER SPIEGEL 20/1988, pp. 234–244.