Journalism in Combat Mode: Agitators, Idiots and Dimwits

Gates of Vienna ^ | 14 May, 2016 | Neue Züricher Zeitung

[MtnClimber]

The state of public communication in Germany is lamentable. Descriptions of agitation and hatred from the right-wing make up the leading vocabulary with which politicians and the established media fuel this lament. The Internet with its social networks is considered the root of all evil. Here limits are breached and there is a continual mockery of communicative decency; laws should facilitate more control and even make restrictions on freedom of speech possible.

The intensity of the public debate, with its escalation on the Internet and its culmination in everything evil attributed to right-wing populism, can lead one to overlook the fact that communicative rowdiness has long since found its place in the traditional media. The counterpart to the angry citizen on the internet is the angry journalism of some leading media who declare scolding, disregard and refusal to communicate to be virtues. A rhetorical brute-force mentality against the enemy on the right is not restricted to the circles of habitual hooligan columnists as der Spiegel routinely employs them. Thus the Berlin Tagesspiegel surprised their readers with a contribution in which they expressly thanked the thuggish packs of so-called Antifa, because with their violent actions they do what they can to make the observance of freedom of speech and the freedom to demonstrate impossible for the political groups whom they declare to be Nazis.

Sympathy for Perpetrators of Violence

In their report on the recent AfD [Alternative für Deutschland] party convention in Stuttgart, Stern deemed it a “form of retributive justice” when violent “Antifa” demonstrators blocked access to the delegates, who then had to make their way through bushes and embankments.

[MtnClimber]

0bama bringing it here too. The left instinctively sides with evil.

[Dick Bachert]

The Krauts got nothin' on us!