A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.
National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”.Former head of ZDF Bonn Dr. Wolfgang Herles make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got “seriously out of whack”. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a “scandal”. He said:
“We have the problem that – now I’m mainly talking about the public [state] media – we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in line with the grand coalition (CSU, CDU, and SPD), with the spectrum of opinion, but also because we are completely taken in by the agenda laid down by the political class”.
Worse than the mainstream, government controlled and poll-tax funded media in Germany just agreeing with the ruling coalition, the stations actually took orders on what was and was not to be reported on.
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http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/29/migrant-crisis-live-wire/
It is just like the Chicago Tribune’s murder crime page that just keeps tabs on all the killings there.
Only in Europe.
And the crimes are less than murder.
They are terror…..These are so fay TODAY:
*03/02/2016 – NIEDERBAYERN, Germany – Afghan Migrant Sentenced to Three Years in Prison after Attacking Man with Knife
*03/02/2016 – DARMSTADT, Germany –
A Syrian postgraduate student has been arrested after he expressed his support for Islamic State in an hour long YouTube video.
*03/02/2016 – MANNHEIM, Germany –
A hotel was raided at just after 9am on Wednesday morning by an armed man who demanded money in broken German.
*03/02/2016 – LANGENFELD, Germany – Attempted abduction of 18 year old girl
*03/02/2016 – SANDHAUSEN, Germany – Woman Mugged at Knife-point by male between 20 and 30 years old, dressed in a hoodie with a scarf wrapped around his face, leaving only his eyes visible who spoke with a foreign accent.
On top of these the migrants also battle amongst themselves causing police to come out repeatedly in huge numbers as they unite and turn on police if they send too few.
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Merkel has just recently admitted that ALL of these ”refugees” should leave Germany when the war in their land is over.
A recent report showed that it will take more than one whole generation before these migrants/refugees are worth more in Germany than their cost to Germany’s taxpayers.
Goebbels would be proud. As would Obama.
Dont think it isn’t happening here in the USA but the victims are different
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/07/03/state-of-oregon-issues-ga
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/do-gag-orders-in-john-doe-violate-firs
Democrats/Socialists are the enemy of freedom of speech.
I might be confused, Wasn’t there another German leader who kept the news people from reporting the crimes of his followers back in the forties ??
How did that work out for the citizens ?
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In the Soviet Union they just chuck the journalists out a high window. EU with progressive socialist ways going to hell in a hand basket. The older Europeans worked hard to make it good for their kids and the governments give it to border bashing rapist muslims…nice.