This is an amazing Guardian article about Bild, which is the largest Western print publication: “Bild Zeitung squats like a large toad on German life” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/bild-zeitung-tabloid-julian-reichelt-angela-merkel-germany …
“In a political culture more conformist and decorous than most of its western peers, Bild functioned like the Las Vegas strip, concentrating all of the Federal Republic’s seediness in one place”pic.twitter.com/pCMmFpoiG2
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“According to the Bild worldview, the best way to counter the left is to portray its demands as totalitarian, and the best way to kill off the far right is to cannibalise its grievances”pic.twitter.com/43a8vXeMeP
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“People block the way to fires because they’re trying to take photos for Bild!”pic.twitter.com/mgEZmEPyOw
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“It was a curious way of viewing a newspaper that has, for decades, polarised a country otherwise committed to ‘consensus politics’ into two camps”pic.twitter.com/eA5HXILMOK
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“Reichelt sees it as his job to restore the old pre-Merkel divisions”pic.twitter.com/hpPPyRwikW
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“You must understand that Bild was right about the three major questions of postwar German life”pic.twitter.com/kmmMdv24W3
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“Wallraff went undercover in order to try to expose Bild as a giant fabrication mill. Instead he discovered an underworld of cynical publicists intent on becoming cheerleaders of the postwar German economic boom”pic.twitter.com/eNycxhZlAP
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“Among its enthusiasms are German cars and the arms industry”pic.twitter.com/3uKLg7piQI
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“A few streets over, extending more than five storeys up the side of the headquarters of Taz, the leftwing daily, stands another piece of Bild lore: a giant high-relief sculpture of Kai Diekmann’s penis”pic.twitter.com/EUkMofbPRj
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Bild not publishing naked women anymore because they now have female employees, is perhaps the most beautiful case for organizational diversity I have seen in a whilepic.twitter.com/GzIOwR2BPG
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“All right, we’ll just say that some people interpret it as a swastika.”pic.twitter.com/1kjk02COKf
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“Can I get a show of hands of how many of you are for the proposed [highway] speed limit?”pic.twitter.com/zHMqKXaE9Q
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