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Rainer Geißler/Sonja Weber-Menges | Media Reception and Ideas on Media Integration 40 Should the German media cover more positive topics related to the migrants who live here and also report on their activities (e.g. celebrations and festivities, activities, clubs and organizations)? Figure 4: More positive coverage.4 The three groups also agree on how the representation of migrants and media integration could be improved (figure 5). The demand for more migrants among the media personnel was raised most frequently. We postulated this as early as five years ago as an important condition for media integration. 4 Source: Sonja Weber-Menges - Survey on Media Reception and Integration of Migrants (preliminary results). N = 673 migrants from Turkey, 1023 from Italy and 512 Russo-German migrants.