Posted on 07/01/2015 10:05:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
“No more billions for the greedy Greeks” or “Merkel shoots down new proposals from Athens”: these are just a couple of the bold headlines Germans have digested with their morning coffee in recent months.
In a country still massively reliant on traditional forms of media—newspapers, and above all television—for its news, these headlines matter. […]
Political discussion on TV is dominated by talk shows such as Anne Will, Günther Jauch and Hart aber Fair (Hard but Fair), where although people outside the mainstream may be invited, “counter-opinions are generally squashed or have little chance of piercing through,” Mühl-Benninghaus pointed out.
This leads to a perverse effect, where people with political opinions outside the narrow mainstream are turned off not just from media, but from politics altogether. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
WOW no wonder why Germans are leery
In a 2015 survey, Reuters found that the country’s biggest online news source, Spiegel Online, reaches just 16 percent of the population—despite 89 percent of people having access to fast internet. …Well, Der Spiegel is one thing, but other media? I wonder if the German internet providers are blocking it on behest of the government, like in places such as Red China.
And here I thought the Greeks just p*ssed away their economy with a lot of socialist horse sh*t, bad management, and giveaway programs.
Just like Obama, in fact.
Well, what really happens is a non-trivial minority turn towards political movements well outside the mainstream, like the anarcho-left or neo-nazis.
There was a big chart I saw yesterday showing about a 40% increase in politically motivated killings in Germany over the past two years. If mainstream politicians consider all resistance to forced immigration as "racist," why not join the real racists? Or burn down refugee centers (which is now happening in many places in Germany) if no politicians will listen.
“Merkel shoots down new proposals from Athens”
Sounds like a newspaper headline from 1914 or 1939.
They have a lot of those across the whole EU. However, once you give away your currency to another country, you can’t devalue yourself back into a state of competitiveness.
And frankly, the Greek government that fell because of the crisis did not want the “bailout” loans. So a snap election was engineered to bring in a government that would. Just like in Portugal, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
Quite the “beneficial crisis”. Which is what the European Union at large is about.
Methinks the Parthenon would look good in Berlin...
Just kidding...
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Doesn’t Germany owe Greece billions of dollars in reparations (and add in interest) for WW2?
You do know if that happens, ten to fifteen years down the road, Greece will be in the same situation.
Amazing how that always works.
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No, clearly it’s the Germans’ fault because of their biased media. They didn’t know they’re supposed to pay all of Europe’s debts into perpetuity because of WWII.
No, the Greeks are just trying to milk that cow to pay for their socialism.
This is actually a very interesting dilemma.
Socialists versus socialists.
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