A diverse society has to become more censored or it will implode.<\/p>\n
From Breitbart<\/a>: A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what \u2014 and what not \u2014 to report.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cto Ms. Merkel\u2019s liking\u201d.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cseriously out of whack\u201d. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a \u201cscandal\u201d. He said:<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the problem that \u2013 now I\u2019m mainly talking about the public [state] media \u2013 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\u201d.<\/p>\n 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. He said:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026the topics about which are reported are laid down by the government.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are many topics that would be more important than what the government wants. But they, of course, want to deflect attention away from what doesn\u2019t happen. Yet what doesn\u2019t happen is often more important than what does happen \u2013 more important than gesture politics\u201d.<\/p>\n While these orders are sent to media companies from unspecified places in the government, they are communicated to individual journalists by news executives using a new-speak jargon. Dr. Herles explains that while \u201cthere are, in fact, instructions from above\u201d, when the editor in chief of ZDF communicated these instructions to his juniors he would merely say reporting should be framed in a way that \u201cserves Europe and the public good\u201d.<\/p>\n There would be no need to add in brackets that this actually means it should be reported \u201cto Ms. Merkel\u2019s liking\u201d, as they would be understood as the true meaning.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, one is not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees\u201d said Dr. Herles, concluding: \u201cThis is government journalism and that leads to a situation in which people no longer trust us. This is a scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n There has been very little reporting of the comments in the German media, and what there was has been critical of the remarks. Focus reported the comments of one centre-left media figure, Der Freitag newspaper editor Jakob Augstein who when asked whether there had ever been such \u201cinstructions from above\u201d, said: \u201cNo, I deny vehemently there has ever been commands from the top\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A diverse society has to become more censored or it will implode. From Breitbart: A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what \u2014 and what … Continue reading