Abstract
The fact that the media shape the everyday life of politics and society today is a commonplace and self-evident fact. For a long time, the media have been an indispensable part of social and political communication and exert considerable influence along the way. Thus, as Thomas Meyer has impressively described in his book "Mediocracy", the media impose their media functional logics on politics (cf. Meyer 2001) and force it, as Dörner further elaborates with the term 'politainment', to symbolically arrange and stage its contents (cf. Dörner 2001). Politics must pay more and more attention to how it appears in the media mirror and adapt its contents and actions to this media appearance.
