Posted on 02/05/2016 1:07:01 PM PST by Lorianne
A former news boss in Germany has claimed the country's media is told what to report on by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government.
His admission comes as the country grapples with accusations media ignored hundreds of sex attacks committed by migrants during Cologne's New Year celebrations.
Dr Wolfgang Herles, the former head of a public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), said journalists are instructed to write news reports that are to 'Ms Merkel's liking'.
Dr Herles labelled the situation a 'scandal' during a radio panel discussion on media and freedom of the press, Breitbart reported.
Asked if the media landscape had 'got out of whack', he replied: 'Today, one is not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees.
'This is government journalism and that leads to a situation in which people no longer trust us.'
He elaborated by saying the topics that should be reported on are 'laid down by the government', with instructions passed down to news executives that they should frame issues in a way that is for the 'public good' of Europe.
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Sheesh!
It wouldn’t surprise me if we know more about the sex crimes in Cologne than do the citizens in Cologne.
Not much different than how the UK Press reports more accurate details of US situations than our own US media does.
One wonders if we’re really that far from this horror in the US?
...and I am referring to the control of he media, not the refugee crisis (which is also a horror).
Merkel is returning to her Stasi roots. Stasi had almost 1 million informants in East Germany reporting on the activity of East Germans. Sounds like Merkel wants to revive that tradition.
Then again our government controls our media too. Sad.
In order to deal with the Muslim invader problem, the German people must cut off the head of the snake. Merkel must go.
I was thinking the same thing. Except, it may already be tomorrow.
Germans need to get their news from the Internet where the system can route around obstructions to the truth.
Foreign media needs to do this Job for the Germans, so that Socialist censorship cannot succeed.
In the manner a "Pimp" controls his "Ho's".
For a hoot, run the comments through your translator.
The fascism has returned to Germany, just in a different form.
“Think of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play.”
- Joseph Goebbels
The Elites are in league with the rapefuges. Germany has seen nothing like this since the end of World War 2.
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